{"id":5935,"date":"2017-08-17T11:37:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T16:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=5935"},"modified":"2017-09-12T17:02:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T22:02:15","slug":"the-confederacy-is-not-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/the-confederacy-is-not-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"The Confederacy is not the South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederacy is not the South. The Confederacy was a six-year tragedy in a history that stretches back over 400 years. There were other tragedies along the way, obviously &#8212; the genocide of native Americans and the chattel slavery of Africans being the two biggest ones, but as these were American atrocities rather than strictly Southern ones, I won&#8217;t be addressing them here. This isn&#8217;t about the crimes of the United States: this is about the southern USA (or just &#8220;the South&#8221;, as it&#8217;s affectionately known), which had its first permanent European settlement in St. Augustine, Florida in 1465, by the Spanish. The South existed for hundreds of years before the stain of the Confederacy, and the South is still here long after the blight of the Confederacy is gone (and good riddance!).<\/p>\n<p>Even some Confederate generals, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-forgotten-confederate-general-who-would-make-a-better-subject-for-monuments\/2016\/01\/27\/f09bad42-c536-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html\">James Longstreet<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/the-confederate-general-who-was-erased-from-history_us_599b3747e4b06a788a2af43e\">William Mahone<\/a>, recognized the value and importance of a United States with racial equality, and worked to make it happen. Sadly, they have been largely forgotten &#8212; or demonized &#8212; by Americans on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.<\/p>\n<p>A Southerner who glorifies the Confederacy and treats it like something to memorialize is like a 50 year old man who met a girl in a bar when he was 18, took her home, and woke up with a dead dog, a stolen truck, an empty bank account, and a case of herpes &#8212; but who insists on keeping her photo on the mantle because it&#8217;s his &#8220;heritage&#8221;. He shouldn&#8217;t be blaming himself for that mistake after all these years, but he damned sure shouldn&#8217;t be reminiscing about it, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederacy is not the South. The Confederacy was a six-year tragedy in a history that stretches back over 400 years. 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