re: #193 Decatur Deb

When we moved down from NJ, our kids were corrected in school for saying ‘Civil War’. The teachers must have been libs—they only insisted on ‘War Between the States”.

Having been through the public school system down here, I can say with 100% certainty that it is general policy to whitewash the civil war as being about anything but slavery, and at most a thing of equal fault on both sides, if not outright a northern invasion of the south.

That whole “fuck you yankees, we’re keeping our slaves and we’ll kill you to do so” thing gets glossed over.