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South's top defender of slavery mothballed as museums reject it; tax dollars piling up to display Civil War submarine as South Carolina grapples with history.
Of all my Confederate coworkers, they checked the most flagrantly unexpected demographic boxes, but they weren’t unique. Out of the seven soldiers at the fort, there was one definite conservative, loosely defined, and one possible conservative who owned a gun but also seemed willing to entertain just about any idea under the sun. The rest were liberals at the very least, and the term leftist was applied to more than just oceanography.
It stands to reason that Woodrow Wilson would be the president to bring us Army bases named for traitors who waged war on this country with the goal of preserving slavery.
The Lost Cause myth that was used to justify honoring the Confederate general was bankrupt from the start.
Lost Cause, interpretation of the American Civil War that attempts to preserve Southern honor by casting the Confederate defeat in the best possible light. It attributes the loss to the overwhelming Union advantage in manpower and resources, and it downplays or altogether ignores slavery as the cause of war.