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Antifar posted...

As white supremacists retook power in the South in the late 19th century, there was a conscious effort to paint the Civil War from the southern perspective as a "lost cause," a noble effort against long odds in defense of state's rights and the "Southern way of life." This was occurring even while the war was fresh in people's minds, and often coming from the same people who had openly declared the central nature of slavery to the South and the conflict.

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