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I believe I am in 100% agreement with you. As to why people believe what they do. I think Abraham Lincoln has been sanctified and democracy as a form of government made holy in most of the American people's minds. This is a result, I believe, of a deliberate effort. People so-affected, even if they have capacity for analytical thought, don't bring it to bear on these topics. In Lincoln's case I think this apotheosis, as it has been called, was seen as a necessity precisely to try to prevent the people from thinking seriously about the murderous and destructive war that he had brought about. Ignoring civilian deaths it cost the life of roughly one man in every 25. And everything possible had to be done to see that as few people as possible seriously asked themselves the question: was the preservation of the Union worth this, let alone, would it have been right to do it forcibly even if it could have been done with much less loss of life and destruction of property?

After such shows as the "Beverly Hillbillies," "the Dukes of Hazard," etc., one gives up on any honest portrayal of the South via Hollywood. Do non-Southerners REALLY think that the vast majority of Southerners speak, act, and think like Uncle Jed or Boss Hog? If you do, you’re calling the wrong people “ignorant.” Most of the Metro Areas of Southern cities are as advanced and educated as any in the rest of the nation. I'm not the kind of Southerner that lauds Civil War era culture (that war was the biggest mistake Southerners ever committed) but at the same time I admire and prefer present day Southern culture far more than any other area of the nation. As far as Hollywood, don't expect anything other than outright misrepresentation of our region. Don't forget, the rest or the nation holds these incorrect, self-serving views, and they certainly don't object to the "hick" portrayals of the South that Hollywood keeps churning out, despite their earnest pleas that the media industry, in every other instance, accurately, factually, and without bias, deliver their product to the people…..