Last week, we looked at two of the four key Lost Cause myths identified by James Loewen and Edward Sebesta in The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause". This week, I'm looking at the last two:
Third, during the "War Between the States," Confederates displayed bravery and stainless conduct. They only lost owing to the brute size of the North. Conversely, slaves displayed loyalty to their "masters" during the war. Finally, and most important, during Reconstruction, vindictive Northern congressmen, childlike African Americans, and corrupt carpetbaggers and scalawags ravaged the prostrate South. ("THE NADIR OF RACE RELATIONS, 1890–1940." In The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause", edited by Loewen James W. and Sebesta Edward H., p. 253. University Press of Mississippi, 2010.)