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Originally Posted by amIblue?
What does that mean? Not to beat a dead horse, but I don't get it. (and I've understood just about everything in this thread up until now).
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There was a propaganda effort by the defeated South after the end of the Civil War. It emphasized the noble, ideological reasons for the war ("State's rights") and downplayed the role of slavery. It also made heroes out of people who should have been hung as war criminals. (Nathan Bedford Forrest, I'm lookin' at you.) That propaganda has a tremendous amount of influence on the way the narrative about the war is constructed today.
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