Great post, kragar.

One thing that occurs to me reading all this Confederacy stuff - southern racist whites have tied their own value to the value of blacks. I think that’s why they can’t let it go. “I as a white am only worth something in relation to blacks being worth less.” They can’t define themselves without black people in the equation. That’s how they get their status. Ironically, they need African-Americans.

Someone on an earlier thread mentioned this being an offshoot of the English class system. The English got over it but then their status was never tied to other races in the same way as it was tied to each other. It’s going to be harder for southern whites.