re: #74 EPR-radar

The Confederate regime was removed in 1865. The racial attitudes underlying the Confederacy were not stamped out at the time (no real attempt was made, and it would have been foolish to try this with an occupying army).

Expressions of loyalty to the Confederacy were considered the same as expressions of disloyalty to the United States (yo, Patriots!) The losers had it drilled into them that they totally lost. It was only once the GAR veterans died out and the Civil War was no longer in anyone’s personal memory that nostalgia for the Old South (like Gone With The Wind) started creeping back.