![]() Only 38% of those surveyed attribute the conflict to slavery. This attitude is also reflected in a Pew Research Center poll from that same year, which found that nearly half (48%) of all Americans agreed: the Civil War was fought over states’ rights. Loewen, published by the Southern Poverty Law Center, found that 55% to 75% of American teachers-“regardless of region or race”-cite states’ rights as the chief reason for Southern secession. Just how pervasive are these Confederate mythologies? An informal survey conducted in 2011 by James W. ![]() ![]() Confederate denialism, in the form of states’ rights advocacy, permits sentimentalists to keep their questionable imagery without having to address its unsavory associations. “It’s about heritage”-forgetting, intentionally perhaps, that slavery and its decade-spanning echoes are very much a part of the collective American heritage. “It’s about Southern pride,” they insist. It’s a self-delusion some use to justify neo-Confederate pride: stars-and-bars bumper stickers, or remnants of Confederate iconography woven into some of today’s state flags. ![]()
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