Bottomline is that the South has never been allowed to be the South. The North and the bookwriters and the balance of the U.S. have been pounded with absolutely nothing but negatives and phoo phooing of all that is the South. They have been painted as something evil and told to sit down and shut-up.
However, when anyone tries to correct the deliberately reframed negative image, they are painted into the corner of *supposedly* trying to defend the indefensible. They are "refighting the war."
James and Bev and Grampa Charlie are the South. They are good, bad and everything else that everyone else is. Sometimes quite stubborn and annoying <g> Plus a whole rainbow of other people. They aren't reliving the war, and what some are still trying to do is get the truth out there about what really happened and what it was really about.
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