..."if we can get along, so can you," "end the violence," "We're all Americans," "no new civil war," etc.
It's fun to dream sometimes...
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I’ve read some cool stories about actual reconciliation years later between southern and northern soldiers when they were older. Also between former slaves and their masters
Oh, absolutely.
I just hope we're not so far gone that such a thing would be impossible today.
I'm not blackpilled, just concerned, you know?
Not really. Those wounds didn't actually heal, and were only covered over. With 100% Democratic control over the south, and the rise of Wilsonian revisionism over both slavery and the Civil War, there really wasn't much political effort at reconciliation, as much as it was back-rationalization into progressive racial politics. The South lost the Civil War, but basically won Reconstruction, and post-Reconstruction.
There's a big difference between enshrining your identity as Neo-Confederates because slavery was good and Johnny Reb dindu nothin'; and actually having some veterans reconcile many decades later, well into post WW1. That's why the post-Reconstruction southern Democrats created the song "I'm A Good Ol' Rebel" in which the speaker openly states he hates the constitution and the republic. It's not really reconciliation, when there were plenty of places in the South that would still kick the shit out of you if you were a northerner visiting even in the 1950's & 1960's. Yankee was a slur.
It was a Democratic party effort to re-orient the entirety of the south along a Progressive racial narrative through propaganda. They really didn't give a shit about unity. That's why I've never been upset about local populations taking down monuments of confederates, as it was always designed to be propaganda from the first place. Especially when you build it at the center of town in a traffic circle, or put it in/on your state capital grounds.
Where removing stuff is not acceptable is in Graveyards, because that really is an effort to honor the dead.
The motive behind the removal of Confederate and other monuments is not reconciliation or the "healing of wounds" and especially not a well-considered program designed to demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of political propaganda, but sheer vandalism rationalized by grandstanding leftist nitwits who never cracked a comic book, let alone a history of the Civil War.
It was galvanized by the glorification of St. Floyd and the knee-jerk rioting and race-baiting that followed.
I don't deny that, what I'm saying that it's the same level of propaganda that put many of them up in the first place.
I'm afraid your perspective is not, and was not, the common parlance. Especially in the pre-Goldwater era, anyone from the North was a Yankee, and anyone who was a Yankee was not welcome. I'm sure that some southerners saw some northerners as "one of the good ones", but not many.
"Southern Hospitality" was typically only something southerners enjoyed.