“But “homestall” is your word, and it identifies you as something other than normal American, likely British, which is fine, we love our distant British kin.
But it makes a pretty arresting point regarding just who are the people putting out so much effort to defend our Lost Causers?
DiogenesLamp has self identified as a Northerner whose black college roommate traumatized him by revealing Lincoln’s “secret strategy” which somehow invalidated everything poor DL learned in school, and turned him into a Lost Causer.
Now we have jeffersondem, who won’t admit anything, but still manages to reveal himself as something other than American, much less Southerner.
Which means that our two main Lost Causer voices on this thread are not genuine Southerners with real feelings toward the Civil War — as for example, central_va & others obviously are.
Instead jd & DL are outsiders who take Lost Causer positions for reasons of their own.
And those reasons are? Anyone’s guess...”
Very colourful.
Integrate that into your fictive storyline.
You could easily tell us the truth, or even invent your own story line, so your refusal to do so suggests truth would not strengthen your arguments.
Consider, most Lost Causers are happy to tell us of the suffering their ancestors endured.
Suffering makes it personal, passionate & legitimate for them, regardless of what historical facts, logic & legalese they believe.
But jeffersondem's only real passion seems to be against our Founders for their, ahem, "unpleasantness" of 1776.
Duly noted.