Always remember one of the “classic” cowboy movies boomers absolutely love is The Outlaw Josey Wales. A very pro-Confederate, anti-Union shit movie starring Clint Eastwood.
The entire plot of the movie is a total fabrication of this exact thing, portraying Josey Wales as an innocent Confederate farmer who’s family is massacred by Northern soldiers for literally zero reason whatsoever other than “the North is evil and the South were the good guys”.
Some truth in it - many of those who went westwards during that time were people who had, or felt like they had, nothing to lose back at home - including Confederates who had put all their eggs in the secession basket.
“For some reason” in this case being, the author was secretly Asa Earl Carter, who infamously declared “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
He also wrote The Education Of Little Tree as pure /r/AsABlackMan native American fanfiction.
Atun-Shei has a surprisingly compassionate video about the whole thing. His focus is on Carter understanding and conveying the humiliation of having your whole shitty worldview slapped out of your hands. Gods And Generals is a blustering propaganda piece for the lost cause narrative. Josey Wales is about the little people, and it says, this is what it feels like to lose.
Always remember one of the “classic” cowboy movies boomers absolutely love is The Outlaw Josey Wales. A very pro-Confederate, anti-Union shit movie starring Clint Eastwood.
The entire plot of the movie is a total fabrication of this exact thing, portraying Josey Wales as an innocent Confederate farmer who’s family is massacred by Northern soldiers for literally zero reason whatsoever other than “the North is evil and the South were the good guys”.
So many of the classic US westerns seems to have an ex-confederate soldier as the main protagonist for some reason.
Some truth in it - many of those who went westwards during that time were people who had, or felt like they had, nothing to lose back at home - including Confederates who had put all their eggs in the secession basket.
“For some reason” in this case being, the author was secretly Asa Earl Carter, who infamously declared “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
He also wrote The Education Of Little Tree as pure /r/AsABlackMan native American fanfiction.
Atun-Shei has a surprisingly compassionate video about the whole thing. His focus is on Carter understanding and conveying the humiliation of having your whole shitty worldview slapped out of your hands. Gods And Generals is a blustering propaganda piece for the lost cause narrative. Josey Wales is about the little people, and it says, this is what it feels like to lose.