Category Archives: Confederacy

Stop re-writing Confederate History : this includes you Simon Jenkins

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Sylvia McLain

Simon Jenkins published an opinion piece yesterday in The Guardian entitled With every sneer, liberals just make Trump stronger. Jenkins derides those who deride Trump and his supporters and he thinks that Trump missed a trick in criticising the left: … Continue reading →

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On ending the myth of the Lost Cause

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Sylvia McLain

During Reconstruction, that horrific impoverished period in the US South after the Civil War, the Cult of the Lost Cause (of the Confederacy) took its roots in the minds and attitudes of Southerners and indeed of the nation as a … Continue reading →

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On the removal of our Southern ‘heritage’

Posted on May 27, 2017 by Sylvia McLain

In the US South, in various places, confederate statues are being removed. In New Orleans Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, General Beauregard – all these relics of the Confederate past are being transported to a legacy of cobwebs, pigeon-shit and … Continue reading →

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That dumb flag – It’s time to let it go

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Sylvia McLain

I miss my home town. I miss the sound of cicadids on a summer evening. I miss the construction of a fine, Southern sentence. I miss running around in bare feet. I miss catching fireflies and putting them in a … Continue reading →

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