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Union, and you know, william faulkner, the great southern novelist said that the past isn't dead, it is not even past. >> this is 2011 though, and not 1861, so i'm curious if you find a difference of the attitude towards the civil war. has it changed over the years? >> yeah. i think that if anything, today, we have sort of lost touch. i think that the poll numbers show that, that we have lost touch with just how much this war was about slavery and people in 1861 wouldn't have disputed that fact. in fact, the newspaper headlines at the time called it the great slavery war. and, yet to,day, as y...
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