RE: I don't understand; why do people defend things such as the confederate flag
May 16, 2017 at 7:12 pm
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2017 at 7:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
At a more personal level (as in, the people who actually had to pull the triggers), southerners were fed a nonstop torrent of disinformation. It would have been very, very difficult to make all those poor southerners fight for the slave owners without the use of conflating rationalizations.
They worried that ragged armies of immigrant yankee soldiers were going to overrun their homes any moment now, and make off with all the white women and what-not. Before you giggle...understand that this still works today, lol.
They worried that ragged armies of immigrant yankee soldiers were going to overrun their homes any moment now, and make off with all the white women and what-not. Before you giggle...understand that this still works today, lol.
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