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Joe, I can agree with the last, short paragraph of Hasford's article. From my viewpoint, the way he chose to write the rest of his article will accomplish nothing more than to assure that future generations of Southerners remain mired in an inflammatory characterization of what happened 145 years ago while northerners remain resolute in their current mistaken characterization of Southerners - no matter that Hasford's description may warm the cockles of a true Southerner's heart.

Don't mistake what I say to imply that truthful, non-embellished Southern antebellum, WBTS and Jim Crow era history should not be preserved and perpetuated into the future; it should be, but not in the form that Hasford describes, unless his only purpose in describing the South in the way he did for CNN is to preserve misunderstanding and ambiguity between Southerners and northerners by pandering to Southern sensibilities.

Just my opinion.

Dennis

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