US Politics on Sidechat | I took a history class about the lost cause and confederate memorialization, one of the most interesting history classes I took and made me realize just how much post-Civil War history is not at all present in American education

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I took a history class about the lost cause and confederate memorialization, one of the most interesting history classes I took and made me realize just how much post-Civil War history is not at all present in American education

Anonymous 3w

This was an intentional and systematic rewriting of history carried out by confederate descendants, particularly the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The idea that the Civil War was simply about states rights stems from this injection of propaganda across the American education system (not just the south)

Anonymous 3w

I just hope the daughters of the confederacy are suffering as they see what Richmond, Virginia has become: woke as fuck. I want to watch them suffer.

Anonymous

#1 3w

It’s so interesting to me how VA and WV switched places politically between the civil war and like 1970s-90s

Anonymous

#2 3w

I’ve put a lot of thought into it and it makes a lot of sense. The more confederate areas of the South were coastal lowlands with industrial cotton agriculture and a good transport network via rivers. The less confederate areas were the more isolated mountains.

Anonymous

#1 3w

You cut to today, and the areas with the most slavery still have large black populations, but now those black people can vote. And the rivers and ports that allowed cotton export are now cities which tend to be more progressive politically. Meanwhile the white communities up in the mountains have gravitated towards the tying of social conservatism with the confederacy, even though before they were anti-confederate.

Anonymous

#1 3w

Geopolitics is fun lol