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redemption. and what was distinctive about the lost cause and redemption wasn't just the violence of colfax, louisiana, or wilmington, north carolina. there was literally a coup in those state governments. it was also, mike, the assault on what we knew. how we remembered reconstruction. how we remembered the past. and what is so interesting about it, when i look at what's going to happen to those kids in florida and texas and all these places where they are not going to be taught the full scope of our history. i get angry about my children. my black children and brown children having to learn that. i actually get more angry about what is going to happen to white children. because you know what? those kids who were taught in the first lost cause, they turned out to be the adults in montgomery. they were the adults in mississippi. they were the adults in louisiana. the folks who actually engaged in the violence of the second reconstruction. so i think part of what we're dealing is what fredrick