Some food for thought.

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Lost Cause of the Confederacy - Wikipedia

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>The Lost Cause of the Confederacy (or simply Lost Cause) is an American pseudohistorical[2][3] negationist mythology[4][5][6] that claims the cause of the Confederate States during the American Civil War was just, heroic, and not centered on slavery.[7] First enunciated in 1866, it has continued to influence racism, gender roles and religious attitudes in the South to the present day.[8][9]
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Lost Cause | Meaning, Myth, Ideology, History, Significance, & Facts

Lost Cause, an interpretation of the American Civil War viewed by most historians as a myth that attempts to preserve the honour of the South by casting the Confederate defeat in the best possible light. It attributes the loss to the overwhelming Union advantage in manpower and resources...
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The Lost Cause: Definition and Origins

As the Civil War drew to a close in 1865, Southerners looked around at the death and destruction that the war had inflicted on their homes, businesses, towns...
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The Southern Myth and William Faulkner on JSTOR

Irving Howe, The Southern Myth and William Faulkner, American Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter, 1951), pp. 357-362
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Man I can source for days and all your dusty ass brain can do is cope with memes, sad.
 
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