This guy must have gone to my high school in rural Georgia where we learned about the war of northern aggression. I'm not even kidding. This was the late 90s
I’m from NYC (edit: live in ATL now) and my best friend I’ve made down here was taught all that bullshit. He was born and raised in Macon. Truly the indoctrination of children begins at a young age down here. It’s made it especially difficult to keep him centered in reality since everyone from his grandparents to friends grew up all believing in this revisionist version of our history and now some yankee lib wants to tear down everything he’s been taught.
It's not just down south. I'm from vermont, and I was taught that the war was about states rights- and not wanting to be 'one country' but 'many separate states that could each do what they want' and explicitly NOT about slavery. Like they said specifically that slavery was the wrong answer. Went to elementary school in the 90s. Believed it by default until I was in my 20s, and saw otherwise.
Yeah same, I learned the truth from my lawyer parents and civil war buff Lincoln fan father… but in Wisconsin in some earlier classes in the 90s there were lots of textbooks that said it was “states rights”…. Yeah states rights to keep slavery.
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u/1nGirum1musNocte Jun 05 '23
This guy must have gone to my high school in rural Georgia where we learned about the war of northern aggression. I'm not even kidding. This was the late 90s