1. 1st big surge in reverence for the Founders comes from the mid-1820s to the late 1860s, as their generation died out & the country contested the meaning of their legacy. Washington Monument begun in 1848. Lots of places named for the Founders - Washington territory in 1853.https://twitter.com/jdmortenson/status/1374119144610791424 …
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7. There are periods (eg, the 1920s) when both pro-Founding & pro-Confederate sentiment ran hot, but often not with the same people or for the same reasons. Harding & Coolidge were not exactly great mythologizers of the Confederacy.
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“Even Trump” ya right. Bigly reverence. Gimme a break
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