“The Confederate flag stopped flying as the pennant of reconciliation, the joining of the southern military tradition to northern establishment might to spread Americanism abroad. It now was the banner of those who felt that the establishment had sacrificed that tradition, "stabbed it in the back." The battle flag became the banner not of a specific Lost Cause but of all of white supremacy's lost causes.” RacismVietnam WarCivil Rights MovementConfederate FlagConfederacy Book:The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Source: The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
“The overseas frontier—wars in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Nicaragua, and Haiti—acted as a prism, refracting the color line abroad back home. In each military occupation and prolonged counterinsurgency they fought, southerners could replay the dissonance of the Confederacy again and again. They could fight in the name of the loftiest ideals—liberty, valor, self-sacrifice, camaraderie—while putting down people of color.” WarRaceConfederacyAmerican South Book:The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Source: The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America