All this stuff that heritage groups spout off about the war was about Northern aggression, tariffs, industrialization, states rights, little green men from Mars, a shortage of Cheesy Poofs, what you have is all disinformation. It s propaganda. It s selective history designed to make you feel good about the bad things your ancestors did. Partly because of this disinformation, Mississippi is once again on the wrong side of history. It took a long time, but the collective society has faced its mistakes and said We were wrong.
Heritage is something to be proud of.
But we have to take the good with the bad. Unless we admit that our ancestors and our society did things wrong and made mistakes, we have no right to honor the good they did and the nobility they stood for.