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How the South Won the Civil War: Heather Cox Richardson Interview

Professor Buzzkill History Podcast

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The Unreality of the Myth

There's this strange dichotomy where, on the one hand, there's an oligarchy that's obviously built up in the South. On the otherhand, there's this free labor, free soil ideology of the North and the image of the Omen farmer moving out West to build a society based on individualism. And yet these two things don't really clash. They feed each other.

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