when the union, right, won the civil war, it didn t do the work of vanquishing the ideas of the confederacy. it moved out in 1877 from the project of reconstruction, and in doing so it really left the entire legacy of the confederacy to rewrite itself, to rebuild itself, to to infiltrate and to politics, into politics, into the into the very fabric of the american story. why are these confederate themes resonating so much today i hear you about the sort of unfinished history of the confederacy, but to see things that are really quite radical, the whole tenth amendment movement, the nullification stuff, people talking openly about secession, states in the south minting their own currency. that s the kind of stuff we ve not seen every year. there seems to be an upsurge that have now. i think we d be foolish to imagine that this is uncorrelated with having an african-american president.
of clarity about the fact that when the union, right, won the civil war, it didn t do the work of vanquishing the ideas of the confederacy. it moved out in 1877 from the project of reconstruction, and in doing so it really left the entire legacy of the confederacy to rewrite itself, to rebuild itself, to to infiltrate and to politics, into politics, into the into the very fabric of the american story. why are these confederate themes resonating so much today i? hear you about the sort of unfinished history of the confederacy, but to see things that are really quite radical, the whole tenth amendment movement, the nullification stuff, people talking openly about secession, states in the south minting their own currency. that s the kind of stuff we ve not seen every year. there seems to be an up surge that have now. i think we d be foolish to imagine that this is uncorrelated with having an
of clarity about the fact that when the union, right, won the civil war, it didn t do the work of vanquishing the ideas of the confederacy. it moved out in 1877 from the project of reconstruction, and in doing so it really left the entire legacy of the confederacy to rewrite itself, to rebuild itself, to to infiltrate and to politics, into politics, into the into the very fabric of the american story. why are these confederate themes resonating so much today i? hear you about the sort of unfinished history of the confederacy, but to see things that are really quite radical, the whole tenth amendment movement, the nullification stuff, people talking openly about secession, states in the south minting their own currency. that s the kind of stuff we ve not seen every year. there seems to be an up surge that have now. i think we d be foolish to imagine that this is uncorrelated with having an african-american president.