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18 Jan 08
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The argument of the Lost Cause insists that the South fought nobly and against all odds not to preserve slavery but entirely for other reasons, such as the rights of states to govern themselves, and that southerners were forced to defend themselves against Northern aggression. When the idea of a Southern nation was defeated on the battlefield, the vision of a separate Southern people, with a distinct and noble cultural character, remained.
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culture religion
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Lost Cause Religion sought to maintain the concept of a distinct, and superior, white southern culture against perceived attacks.
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myth, symbol, and their expressions through rituals.
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First, the prewar South—the Old South—was a place of nobility and chivalry.
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Civil War was recast as a defense of the South against aggressive, money-grubbing Northerners. In Lost Cause mythmaking, the "War of the Rebellion" (as the federal government called it) became the "War of Northern Aggression." While Southerners were a people of honor and purity, Northerners were invaders, a people consumed by lust for power.
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Cause was not truly lost. Victory would come if white southerners maintained their superior and pure culture. The South need not be separate politically to rise again spiritually.
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United Daughters of the Confederacy
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the song "Dixie," the Confederate battle flag, and the gray uniform of the South
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living symbols of the Lost Cause
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accused Georgian James Longstreet of losing the war by his actions at Gettysburg.
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Confederate Memorial Day, "the Sabbath of the South,"
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"No nation rose so white and fair: None fell so pure of crime"
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