re: #31 reine.de.tout

The grudge is partly fueled, IMO, by the fact that there are quite a few people who have some ancestral ties to those who fought that war, and they are looking for some way to honor those folks.

Check out all the “Daughters of the Confederacy” and “Sons of the Confederacy” that exist. Members have to show some connection to someone in the war, if I recall correctly.

There are other ways to do it.

Sure, but Northerners have those same ancestral ties without obsessing over the Civil War.

Some traditionalist southerners are still really proud of their “great lost cause”, and have fooled themselves into thinking that there was a great deal of nobility in seceding and fighting to preserve slavery.