Hard to believe, but the American Civil War (1861-1865) continues to divide America more than a century and a half after its impact on America!
Nikki Haley has trouble realizing that slavery was the major cause of the Civil War.
Ron DeSantis, when a high school teacher two decades ago, told his students that slavery was NOT the major cause of the Civil War.
Donald Trump tells us that Abraham Lincoln should have negotiated with slave owners, as it might have prevented the Civil War, and that Lincoln would not be remembered if it was not for the bloodshed of that war.
The “Lost Cause”, that of “states rights”, was used in the South to propagandize for generations the fact that the South had lost the war, and only was finally overcome in most circles since the 1960s, but now the new MAGA Republican propaganda is reviving the old myth, which justified Jim Crow segregration, lynching, and denial of basic civil rights to African Americans for a century after the Civil War.
Leave it to those who attack DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion), and the nation will be going backwards in understanding of our history, and promoting racial reconciliation, so the battle against the “Lost Cause” must be waged!