Opinion of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy

[Citizen Hats]

The Lost Cause is a shorthand for the mythological cycle about the supposed glories, honor, prowess, and righteousness of the Confederacy and it's leaders that was constructed in the late 19th Century as a way for Southerners to avoid contemplating the colossal society-wide obscenity of going to war to defend the principle that men might own men.

 Men like Alexander Stephens, who thundered in 1861 that white supremacy was the 'cornerstone' of the Confederacy and that the equality of man was the downfall of the union whimpered that, "O no, we were only defending state's rights" in 1870.