privateflemming
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I thought I'd just make a poll here of what seem to be the central tenets of the so-called "Lost Cause" ideology. You can choose as many as you want.
Since this is a poll with limited space, many options obviously won't encompass the whole of your beliefs with all nuances and caveats but the point is just to choose what you agree with in a general sense. For example, I would not at all consider myself an adherent of the Lost Cause but I will agree that the North did not attack the Confederacy in 1861 to end slavery but rather to restore the Union in response to themselves being attacked at Fort Sumpter, although there were certainly Unionists from the beginning for whom that was or became a goal.
Since this is a poll with limited space, many options obviously won't encompass the whole of your beliefs with all nuances and caveats but the point is just to choose what you agree with in a general sense. For example, I would not at all consider myself an adherent of the Lost Cause but I will agree that the North did not attack the Confederacy in 1861 to end slavery but rather to restore the Union in response to themselves being attacked at Fort Sumpter, although there were certainly Unionists from the beginning for whom that was or became a goal.
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