Revelation of the Method: A Skit to a Typo

Downard talks about the primacy of a lot of Southern lodges in how the South has been governed and its origins. People have for a long time kind of speculated like was Downard satire? Is it like tongue in cheek? How serious is that? I don't know, but the more I go, the more I could see. Nah, maybe he wasn't, maybe he was telling the truth.