I grew up in Texas in the middle of the countryside and we still learned about the civil war being southern states rights for slavery. Like, I have no clue what places are teaching what these morons are learning, but middle of nowhere Texas still taught it properly so 🤷
I also grew up in Texas in the 90s and during our Texas History courses, they liked to sweep under the rug that that Texas independence was basically because the Mexican govt outlawed slavery on 1829 and didn’t want anyone owning slaves or bringing more over anymore.
Re: the Civil War, there was LOTS of “lost cause” and “states rights” apologist language in our text books. The teachers didn’t really dwell on that but the books did.
Even my community college American history class in 2002 (just an hour south of Atlanta) was chock full of Lost Cause nonsense.
I didn’t even recognize it at the time since it was the same stuff my dad taught me. He was a really smart guy who read a lot of history and was particularly interested in the Civil War, so I didn’t have a lot of reason to question things until later when I learned what the Lost Cause actually was.
It was always tied up in so many family stories too, and the idea of those 'damn yankees and carpet baggers", it was a part of my identity and history. It was just all around me, like the air, and so it was weird and kinda hard to unlearn that stuff, but not unwelcome.
I think maybe folks raised outside the south don’t see all that stuff, how that culture permeates everything. Or maybe they think it’s just a bunch of stupid rednecks who’ve never picked up a book, I’m never quite sure 😅
At least the more modern textbooks I’ve seen do a much better job at telling the proper story!
I grew up in Tar Heel North Carolina, they showed us…not Roots but imagine other movies you’d put in a playlist with Roots. I remember one where they cut a slave’s finger off for learning to read. In NASCAR Tobacco Cotton Cackalacky. They tried to tedious it up with locations and dates of battles but they made no bones about how awful the institution of chattel slavery was in the American South.
EDIT: I’m not saying this as an insult to Texas. It’s a distinct culture from the deep south in the US. Texans will no doubt agree that they are built different.
I grew up in Texas in the middle of the countryside and we still learned about the civil war being southern states rights for slavery. Like, I have no clue what places are teaching what these morons are learning, but middle of nowhere Texas still taught it properly so 🤷
I also grew up in Texas in the 90s and during our Texas History courses, they liked to sweep under the rug that that Texas independence was basically because the Mexican govt outlawed slavery on 1829 and didn’t want anyone owning slaves or bringing more over anymore.
Re: the Civil War, there was LOTS of “lost cause” and “states rights” apologist language in our text books. The teachers didn’t really dwell on that but the books did.
Also a matter of how up-to-date your textbooks are, and when you grew up. It was definitely common in the Deep South as recently as the 90s.
Even my community college American history class in 2002 (just an hour south of Atlanta) was chock full of Lost Cause nonsense.
I didn’t even recognize it at the time since it was the same stuff my dad taught me. He was a really smart guy who read a lot of history and was particularly interested in the Civil War, so I didn’t have a lot of reason to question things until later when I learned what the Lost Cause actually was.
It was always tied up in so many family stories too, and the idea of those 'damn yankees and carpet baggers", it was a part of my identity and history. It was just all around me, like the air, and so it was weird and kinda hard to unlearn that stuff, but not unwelcome.
I think maybe folks raised outside the south don’t see all that stuff, how that culture permeates everything. Or maybe they think it’s just a bunch of stupid rednecks who’ve never picked up a book, I’m never quite sure 😅
At least the more modern textbooks I’ve seen do a much better job at telling the proper story!
Not for long
I grew up in Tar Heel North Carolina, they showed us…not Roots but imagine other movies you’d put in a playlist with Roots. I remember one where they cut a slave’s finger off for learning to read. In NASCAR Tobacco Cotton Cackalacky. They tried to tedious it up with locations and dates of battles but they made no bones about how awful the institution of chattel slavery was in the American South.
In the South (Texas is not The South, it’s Texas)
EDIT: I’m not saying this as an insult to Texas. It’s a distinct culture from the deep south in the US. Texans will no doubt agree that they are built different.