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p> NORTH SOUTH br> Re: Florence King's Dixie in Denial : /p> p>Regarding Florence King's review of David Eicher's Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War , I would add that this article could have been re-titled "Conservatives in Denial." In my experience, far too many conservatives in this country, including numerous Southerners of course, maintain an unhealthy intellectual and emotional attachment to the Confederacy. The Confederacy (as distinct from the South) did not, and does not, stand for anything honorable in American history. While there were honorable Southerners who lived and fought under the Confederacy, their virtues should not be conflated with the Confederacy itself. The Confederacy, as a political body, was founded in treason and dedicated to slavery (and, as a government, was incompetent and corrupt). Indeed, the Confederacy goes against everything that is noble and good about the United States. And had the Confederacy succeeded in its divisive designs, the subsequent history of the western world almost certainly would have changed for the worse. We all should be grateful, not resentful, that the Union defeated the Confederacy. br> -- Steven M. Warshawsky br> New York, New York /p> p> TEMPERATURES RISING

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