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Related: About this forum"The Lost Cause" - How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history
Interesting video recently from VOX that talks about the concerted effort made by The United Daughters of the Confederacy - to manage how the Civil War was taught, and remembered in the South.
According to the video, the group was responsible for the existence of many of the Civil War "hero" statues that went up all over the South, as well as the way textbooks in the former confederacy described the war. It goes a long way in explaining why we see so many people today posting that the war was not about slavery at all...they have been taught that for generations now.
KT2000
(20,544 posts)this really helps to explain the divide in this country.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)maybe teaching their kids info contrary to what was taught in school over the years. I had NO IDEA it was actually in textbooks!
cachukis
(2,200 posts)The confederacy's Living Monuments
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/the-confederacys-living-monuments.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=67&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)3catwoman3
(23,812 posts)...a lot.
Rhiannon12866
(202,970 posts)Issue. He said that "they must be getting up in age..."