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A century ago the federal government and the military were making concessions to the South in order to promote national reconciliation.

BS. Maybe the feelings were genuine. You wouldn't know about those.

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With time, maybe they became geniune, but contrary to the popular mythology, veterans and others who lived through the war had hostile feelings for years after the war.

And maybe I’ve been hanging out with Diogenes too much to believe that politicians have “genuine feelings” that don’t involve self-interest.