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The Basic Precepts Of The Lost Cause Movement

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The Lost Cause was a set of attitudes, beliefs, white Southern ideals and arguments that coalesced together to form the white Southern narrative of Reconstruction, and the American Civil War. According to Blight, “for many Southerners it became a natural extension of evangelical piety, a civil religion that helped them link their sense of loss to a Christian conception of history.”(Blight, 257) Moreover, the basic precepts of the Lost Cause movement was founded upon the idea of Southern victimhood, and Federal aggression that resulted with the decline and ignominious fall
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