The real big secret they don't teach you is that whole tragic "brother against brother" narrative is a Northern thing
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The Rebels didn't see the Yankees as brothers, they didn't regret fighting the war, and in fact they never stopped fighting it
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Redemption was a continuation of the Civil War. It was guerrilla warfare, plain and simple
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The Klan was an insurgent military force, a rebellion
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Since the war we've had an ongoing rebel movement within the US and the US has preferred to lie to itself about it
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Part of my bitterness is learning that the Civil War proved how much this "Idea of America" is in fact very weak
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Lincoln embodied the Idea of America, Obama - whose hero is Lincoln - even more so
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America as being about belief in democracy, or the public good, or equality and freedom, or whatever
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It's had its moments but even with all the advantages stacked in its favor it has a tough time competing with the Idea of Whiteness
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People will - even with no direct economic benefit from it, as pointed out ad nauseam - die to defend the idea of whiteness
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They'll die for it, they'll kill for it, they'll commit unthinkable atrocities for it - even against their own neighbors and families
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The fact that poor white non-slave owners would grab one of their own neighbors and torture him on suspicion of loyalty to the Union
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That they'd lock up Union soldiers and beat them every day while watching them slowly die of starvation and disease
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