Horwitz 3
issues to take from this
- not everyone
has a family motivation
- brought
together the south beyond family--imagined community
- lots of
mis-information
- what cause
does the confederate flag stand for?
- states
rights
- individual
liberty
- segregation
- rebels
- what is the
heritage that people are talking about
- family
descent
- inherited property
- inherited
identity
- inherited
culture
accuracy=factual
details
authenticity=feeling of the time period
(credit Paul Martin)
Daughters of the Confederacy
What is hostility to the federal government about?
Confederate flag over the SC statehouse
note that the idea that race mixing causes
degeneracy is scientifically wrong--scientists who promoted
eugenics made that claim while at the same time developing a
theory of hybrid vigor in breeding plants and animals
What does Confederate heritage mean in a Kentucky
county that mostly took the northern side?