Well, in response to Nikki Haley's recent claim

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2. They're Projecting

Nearly the entire history of the Confederate States of America was hijacked shortly after the 1876 presidential election. The concept of the "Lost Cause" and "States Rights" were rewritten into US history. It's easily dispelled by reading what you already have noted and any of the state succession proclomations that the cause of the Civil War was slavery. If one walks on the fields of Gettysburg it should be apparent to anyone with half a brain that the Confederate monuments were put there well after the Union Soldiers were no longer able to care for the grounds and the battlefield was turned over to the US park service. It's maddening that I was taught these concepts in school and only by reading on my own many years later was I able to determine that the whole treatment of the Civil War has been one big white wash (acknowledging the poor choice of words).