nra presidential punk porter, proud member of the Lost Cause:
"Now, y’all might call it the Civil War, but we call it the War of Northern Aggression down south."
wiki: Those who contributed to the {Lost Cause} movement tended to portray the Confederacy's cause as noble and most of its leaders as exemplars of old-fashioned chivalry, defeated by the Union armies through overwhelming force rather than martial skill. Proponents of the Lost Cause movement also condemned the Reconstruction that followed the Civil War, claiming that it had been a deliberate attempt by Northern politicians and speculators to destroy the traditional Southern way of life.
The Lost Cause is the name commonly given to an American literary and intellectual movement that sought to reconcile the traditional white society of the U.S. South to the defeat of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War..
The Lost Cause view of the Civil War also influenced the 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and the 1939 film of the same name. There Southerners were portrayed as noble, heroic figures, living in a romantic and conservative society, who tragically succumbed to an unstoppable, destructive force.
Another prominent use of the Lost Cause perspective was in Thomas F. Dixon, Jr.'s 1905 book The Clansman, later adapted to the screen by D.W. Griffith in his highly successful movie Birth of a Nation in 1915. In both the book and the movie, the Ku Klux Klan is portrayed as continuing the noble traditions of the South and the CSA soldier by defending Southern culture in general and Southern womanhood in particular against alleged depredations and exploitation at the hands of the Freedmen and Yankee carpetbaggers during Reconstruction.
Some of the main tenets of the Lost Cause movement were that:
1 Confederate generals such as Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston and "Stonewall" Jackson represented the virtues of Southern nobility and fought bravely and fairly. On the other hand, most Northern generals were characterized as possessing low moral standards, because they subjected the Southern civilian population to indignities like Sherman's March to the Sea and Philip Sheridan's burning of the Shenandoah Valley in the Valley Campaigns of 1864. {AND CURRENTLY OBAMACARE & GUNCONTROL.} Ulysses S. Grant is often portrayed as an alcoholic.
2 Losses on the battlefield were inevitable due to Northern superiority in resources and manpower.
3 Battlefield losses were also the result of betrayal and incompetence on the part of certain subordinates of General Lee, such as General James Longstreet, who was reviled for doubting Lee at Gettysburg, and George Pickett, who led the disastrous Pickett's Charge that broke the South's back (Lost Cause focused mainly on Lee and eastern theater..).
4 Defense of states' rights, rather than preservation of chattel slavery, was the primary cause that led eleven Southern states to secede from the Union, thus precipitating the war.
5 Secession was a justifiable constitutional response to Northern cultural and economic aggressions against the Southern way of life.
6 Slavery was a benign institution, and the slaves were loyal and faithful to their benevolent masters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy
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