All Annotations of Lost Cause Religion[Preview]

saved byDavid Voelker on 2008-01-27

• The main components of the Lost Cause myth, repeated in writings, sermons, lectures,
  and speeches by scores of postwar southern figures, are easily identified. First, the prewar South—the Old South—was a place
  of nobility and chivalry. (There is no better capsule description of the Old South of the Lost Cause myth than the opening
  words of the movie version of Gone With the Wind, with its elegiac reference to the now-vanished pretty world "of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields," where gallantry "took its
  last bow.")
  • on 2008-01-27 21:25:44 David_voelker
    *Gone with the Wind* is a great example, but so too is the earlier film *Birth of a Nation*.

• on 2008-01-27 14:39:14 David_voelker
  This page from the *New Georgia Encyclopedia* explains the "religion" of the "Lost Cause," which white Southerners used to defend their honor after the Civil War.