I own a vintage 5th/6th grade textbook: “A School History of Texas,” c. 1913. Revisionist history says the Civil War was about “States Rights.” Check it out. In 1913 white folk weren’t embarrassed abt slavery yet. #WCT #weirdchristiantwitter 1/5
So, here are a few pages from the textbook. Note on page 211: “the Northern states, by their attacks on slavery, had violated the constitution.... the power of the government was now being used to oppress the slave states.” Slavery was the issue. 2/5 
Reconstruction. Check out how the book treats the KKK on pages 231-232. No, apparently the State Board of Education wasn’t even embarrassed about domestic terrorists yet. Praising the KKK in a 5th/6th grade textbook. 3/5
Today most white Southerners understand that slavery was morally wrong & that the KKK aren’t the good guys. But, dang it, they still want to be proud of their “Confederate Heritage.” What to do, what to do? Rewrite/revise. “States Rights.” 4/5
Yet, even today, here I am 66, white, live in Texas. Seems like an awful lot of folk in my demographic learned everything they know about slavery from Gone With the Wind. 🙄 5/5
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