re: #14 HappyWarrior

They really got off easy. I think it’s part of why the Lost Cause was able to prosper over the years.

They did; if the North had occupied the South the way we did post-WWII Germany and Japan, combined with something analogous to the de-Nazification efforts, the “Lost Cause” mythos would no longer be around, and the South would likely be a very different place.