Northern Apologist Meme in Place to Advance the Northern Myth

The Northern myth of the Civil War is that the Yankees fought to free the slaves, end racism, create social justice and equality for all, while the evil Southerners fought to preserve and extend slavery throughout the United States.  It is utterly false, and easily disproved in debate.  However, that doesn't mean Yankee fans will shirk their chosen duty to invent new rationales and arguments to preserve and extend the Northern myth.

I wrote earlier about Bob Sutton's new propaganda line, about how the South allegedly admitted the war was about slavery at the beginning, then later changed the argument to something more palatable in order to win support from Europe.  Sutton is the chief historian(?) of the National Park Service.  In my rebuttal, I proved that Sutton's argument was a complete reversal of actual history -- it was Lincoln who disingenuously "changed" the reason for the war in order to dissuade British recognition of the Confederacy.  (See that post here.)

Now we have leftist columnist E.J. Dionne taking up the Sutton argument in his article "Let's Not Spin the Civil War."  Of course, Dionne's real message is "Let's Spin the Civil War in Favor of the North, Like We've Been Doing for 145 years."  Dionne's Washington Post article was reprinted at RealClearPolitics (read it here) where it has received potent criticism from Southern defenders.

During the 150th anniversary of the War for Southern Independence, we have a rare opportunity to refute the Northern myth of history and defend the South.  An effective way to do that is to perceive the Northern arguments and have rebuttals researched and ready to launch at a moment's notice.  If you want to be in on that and up on the latest developments, visit this site often.