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Why do we still embrace Blight's "blood feud"? Why haven't we,after one hundred and fifty years,reconciled the Civil War? -- R.King | Why do we still embrace Blight's "blood feud"? Why haven't we,after one hundred and fifty years,reconciled the Civil War? -- R.King | ||
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| + | Blight discusses how the ideology of the "Lost Cause" developed after the Civil War had ended. The Richmond dispatch discussed that the South had fought for a "sense of rights under the Constitution," "and a conscientious conviction of the justice of their position." They went on to write how the South how sacrificed itself in order to find answers to unsettled questions left by the founding fathers. Do you agree with this statement?- Nick | ||
