Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History

Newcomers to the South often remark that southerners, at least white southerners, are still fighting the Civil War — a strange preoccupation considering that the war formally ended more than one hundred and thirty-five years ago and fewer than a third of southerners today can claim an ancestor who actually fought in the conflict. But even if the war is far removed both in time and genealogy, it survives in the hearts of many of the region's residents and often in national newspaper headline...