Re:For Decades, Southern States Saw Thanksgiving as an Act o...
by dragonwriter on Saturday November 24, 2018 @09:06PM
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> Like it or not "states rights" is an American interpretation of the Civil war, even if it is one that is not historically accurate.
More accurately, “states rights” was, at the time of the Civil War, a code word for protecting slavery that was revived during the Jim Crow era as a broader code for protecting segregation and systematic discrimination, and the faction which uses it that way has always been strong enough to play a major role in shaping the national mythology.
More accurately, “states rights” was, at the time of the Civil War, a code word for protecting slavery that was revived during the Jim Crow era as a broader code for protecting segregation and systematic discrimination, and the faction which uses it that way has always been strong enough to play a major role in shaping the national mythology.