re: #323 HappyWarrior

I mean I get why older Southern whites have their romantic ideas about the CSA. What I don’t get is why they refuse to challenge them. Even a great historian like Shelby Foote was saying into the 1990’s that he gladly would have fought for the CSA cause.

Had one grown up in it, one might easily have come to see it as a worthy cause. I cannot judge people from history for doing what they did, even if I disagree with it from my modern point of view.

I do not want to think about what it would have been like to have been born in the 20’s in Germany and grow up as a youth/teenager under the Nazi regime.