Origins of the Confederate Lost Cause

The intense debate on the flags of the South Carolina State and the Southern Union across the country is part of a larger discussion on the historical interpretation of the Confederacy and the reasons for the civil war. For people in the south, the civil war is a very big "cause of loss". This is an interpretation of the inter-Korean rule, has long influenced the history of civil war and its influence.

The reason for losing the myth has history. It is an invention that explains the failure of the civil war and was rebuilt to maintain the political regime with only white people. As John A. Simpson states, it is an extreme form of "nostalgia of the federation" and by 1913 the reasons for losses are engraved in the nation's nation "forever". Birth (1915), Gone with the Wind (1936) and the movie (1939) are popular cultural expressions of this "cult".

In essence, the reason for the loss is "to protect the living style against greedy northern countries, the rights of the state, even the original American Revolution," the mystery of the noble alliance leader embodied by the Southern soldier of the Order and Jefferson Davis "is. Industrial machinery Despite the influence on white governance of political power and the negative humanity of the Negro African people, the actual cause of the existence of the Federation, the slavery and power of the plantation economy based thereon plays an important role There was not.

To feel the loss of all its rhetoric, this explanation on the registration of the 1903 Kentucky Historical Society may be sufficient. In "a word about the reason for failure", JCM praised the girls in the southern part of the south by laying garlands in the tombs of the young and sublime people who lost their lives, from the deterioration of the sweetest land of the earth I guarded it. "When the relating principle is the cause of justice, when the spirit of God's truth, immortal, and crushed by the earth rises again and will shine in the sky, the author surely" lost cause " I am unhappy. The name is being questioned. Cover the defender on earth with the glory of victory. "

The reason for the loss is also a struggle against the previous Confederate army. Kevin M. Levin elaborated on the postwar career of William Mahone, the Confederate General of the Confederary who turned into a businessman or politician. Mahone supports the Republican Party when it decides that the majority of southern Caucasians are democratic.

In the late 1970s, Mahone was also the most powerful and embarrassing face, with white supremacy, black men, agricultural economics and democracy, independent mixed confrontation Virginia movement fighting black political behavior and progress did. The economy agrees. Exterior However, in 1883, the Readjusters were swept away at the Virginia office, the plantation elite known as the Bourbon dynasty regained power and defeated the attempt of local reconciliation and reconstruction. Racist terrorist activities continue

The cause of the loss of the Southern Alliance, or simply the cause of loss, is an ideological movement explaining the cause of the Southern Alliance as a heroic cause in spite of failure. Ideology supports the so-called virtue of the South before World War II and regards it as a glorious struggle for the southern lifestyle, while minimizing or denying the central role of slavery. The cause of the loss of ideology combines many ideas. Supporters of loss believe that slavery is not the main cause of civil war and claim that there are few scholars who have seen slavery this way before the 1950s. To reach this conclusion, they ignored the separation statement of the separatist state, the parliamentarians who left Congress to join the Congress, and the slave treatment in the Federal Constitution. They also denied or minimized the speech to support federal leaders' wartime activities and postwar opinion. (Look at the presentation of Cornerstone.)

For many people in the modern south, the basic assumption of the cause of failure has been proved to last long. In the public places of the Confederate flag and various state flags, the principle of the cause of loss often occurs. Historian John Koski is the son of the Allied veterans' veteran, "the defense of the most obvious, most active and most effective national flag" entered the 21st century, almost unchanged, the reason why he lost his historical interpretation and ideology Pointed out. Vision is suitable for 20. "Coski wrote" The National Flag War at the End of the 20th Century: