What is the lost cause

the lost cause Is an American historical ideology that holds that the cause of the Confederacy during the American civil war was a just and heroic one. The ideology endorses the supposed virtues of the antebellum south, viewing the war as a struggle primarily for the Southern way of life, or "States rights", in the face of the overwhelming "Northern aggression".

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