Connect the Dots 101

One hopes the AP will clarify this. What is “recent” is Trump’s successful campaign to whitewash American history.

As W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in 1935 and Donald Yacovone documents in his 2022 book Teaching White Supremacy, “the postwar “Lost Cause” sentimentality that fueled Southern resistance to Black freedom and full democracy had as strong a hold on the Northern imagination as it did on that of the South.”

…and still does among Trumpist White nationalists and garden-variety racists.