re: #40 Shiplord Kirel

Being of Appalachian hill-folk extraction myself, I’ve often wondered if the conflict over Unionism in the hills was a factor in the subsequent vilification of “hillbillies” by lowland Southerners. This prejudice was subsequently spread nationwide with the success of “reconciliation” and its supporting myth of the Lost Cause.
I have a habit of posting Tennessee Ernie Ford’s rousing rendition of Marching Through Georgia whenever the Lost Cause and neo-Confederate agitation comes up. Some southerners find it disconcerting that the purely southern Ford could offer such a heartfelt performance of a famous Union marching song, one that glorifies a campaign that is demonized as an atrocity by over-sensitive slaver apologists to this day. I don’t know for sure, but it may be significant that Ford was from Bristol County, Tennessee, a noted pro-Union hotspot during the Civil War.

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That is something interesting to think about. I never really thought about it but honestly given that the CSA leadership was its core very aristocratic and elitist, it wouldn’t shock me at all,