Slim Majority of Americans Support Preserving Confederate 'Lost Cause' History

[Badger]

The “Lost” cause is used to disparag southerners and those of us who are against totalitarean forms of government. FACT: The South succeeded because of slavery. FACT: The north invaded a soverein nation and started the civil war.

Pound salt, you traitor slavery apologist. God bless the UNITEDS States of America.

[Badger]

The “Lost” cause is used to disparag southerners and those of us who are against totalitarean forms of government. FACT: The South succeeded because of slavery. FACT: The north invaded a soverein nation and started the civil war.

Pound salt, you traitor slavery apologist. God bless the UNITEDS States of America.

Literally angrier than Ulysses Grant was about the rebels. Literally still fighting a war from 150 years ago. It's sad to have left wing views when other leftists are such angry people.

It's Neo Confederates who refuse to give up on their Lost Cause ideology and insist the war had nothing to do with slavery. Slapping down such ignorance affects us today. And is quite worthwhile.

[Badger]

Saying that the typical Southern Soldier didn't fight for slavery is like saying the typical Pittsburgh worker or Detroit worker didn't care about the steel industry or Auto industry at its peak because only about 1 in 10 residents of those Metro areas directly worked in those industries. However, as was the case with slavery, they were the primary economic engine for those regions supporting not only the people directly employed in them, but many subsidiary Industries directly reliant on providing parts, maintenance, raw materials, Etc, not to mention all the third tier but absolutely crucial economic support those people directly and indirectly involved in the industry supported the rest of the regions economy, by creating a market to purchase everything from refrigerators, cars, homes, but going out for pizza and bowling.  The prebellum southern economy was likewise utterly and completely tied in every single aspect to agrarian slave holding. Heck, even those Farmers to poor to be able to afford slaves themselves fully expressed believed that slavery was the way of expanding their wealth, maybe not in their lives or even their kids' lives, but at least they're great grandkids would perhaps have a chance to become wealthy so long as slavery was alive.

Likewise, not only did middle class and poorer Southerners not only expressly and almost ubiquitously state in writings from the time that they're economic well-being was directly tied to slavery notwithstanding not owning slaves themselves, but just as common was the wholehearted belief that freed Savage black men would go wild raping and pillaging genteel southern white women. I inks you not as to how Beyond ubiquitous that belief was, including among non-slave owners.

So in a nutshell, one didn't by any means need to own slaves in order to rely on slavery's impact of the Southern economy, as it was damn near Universal, and for anyone who may not may not have been as directly affected, the fear of rampaging freed negro men was more than enough for them to take up arms in a shockingly ignorant belief of needing to defend their homes from such so-called savagery that people like Frederick Douglass