El Estrago Bonito posted:

The term you guys are looking for is Lost Cause Revisionism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy
It's one of the many ways the South has been forced to deal with the Civil War, because in many ways in the South the Civil War was a war where extremely rich and wealthy people sent hundreds of thousands of poor, uneducated yokels who had never owned a slave in their life to die so that they could stay wealthy. The issue is now they have to reconcile how to handle their ancestors being nominally good and moral people (although let's be real, they were also probably huge racists because come on) who fought to prop up one of the worst institutions our government has ever been a part of. And so they become the historical equivalent of those Episode I fans who ignore Jar Jar and the two hours of trade politics because pod racing and that lightsaber fight were hecka rad bro.