DOC Parties; Slavery; and the Union in Antebellum Georgia by Anthony Carey in History

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Southerners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox; but they preserved their cultural identity by blending Christian rhetoric and symbols with the rhetoric and imagery of Confederate tradition. Out of defeat emerged a civil religion that embodied the Lost Cause. As Charles Reagan Wilson writes in his new preface; "The Lost Cause version of the regional civil religion was a powerful expression; and recent scholarship affirms its continuing power in the minds of many white southerners."