If the Lost Cause is a mythic image of the South then how do the non-Southern states view the Lost Cause? For authors Patrick Gerster and Nicholas Cords, the North has some culpability in the rise of the southern mythology. They base their argument on works by northern authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, a New Englander. Stowe portrayed stereotyped images of the blacks as the “faithful-darky” Sambo image and the white population as cavaliers and virtuous belles. Southern stereotypes were reinforced through music composed by northerners like Stephen Collins Foster and his songs “Susanna”, “My Old Kentucky Home”, and “Old Black Joe” as they accentuated the stereotypes of the African Americans and South’s culture. Gerster and Cords view the