In 2011, Public Policy Polling (“PPP) sampled voters in Georgia, Mississippi and North Carolina on attitudes about the Civil War and Jim Crow and saw a sizable minority wished that the South had won the Civil War and that interracial marriage remained illegal. MS GA NC Wish South Had Won Civil War 27% 23 21% — … Continue reading
Civil War 150th: It is Time to Reclaim History and Move Forward Growing up in New England, the Civil War was ancient history and not altogether that significant in our lives other than the fact that the North and slavery ended. We marveled at the south’s obsession with the “lost cause” and I recall talking … Continue reading
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