When I was a boy in Georgia in the 1940s, the schools and many of the businesses there closed down to observe Confederate Memorial Day; and we assembled at the Confederate cemetery to hear our US senator or congressman praise the virtues of the Confederates. It was a big deal. Today those schools ignore Confederate Memorial Day and close for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday instead.

When I was a boy, Confederate cemeteries routinely flew Confederate flags. Now those flags are being systematically banished from Confederate cemeteries, because they have "offended" somebody.

When I was a boy, I was taught in school that the War Between the States was fought primarily over states' rights and economics, and secondarily over slavery. Many of today's Southern schools don't even bother to teach the history of their state, or American history, anymore. Of those that do, most fly through the "Civil War" in an hour or so, attributing it solely to the dastardly defense of slavery on the part of the South.

When I was a boy (Before Television), the radio stations signed off the air at midnight each night by playing "Dixie." The high school and college marching-bands routinely played "Dixie." Now they no longer play "Dixie," for fear they might "offend" someone.

When I was a boy, white Southerners were routinely treated with respect as characters in the plots of movies. For the past 30 years, they have been treated like despicable scum; thus shaping powerfully the attitudes of the Americans (including the Southerners) regarding the Southerners.

When I was a boy, there were few if any documentaries ("docudramas") depicting the white Southerners as systematically mistreating innocent blacks. Now the TV programming is filled with reruns of distorted docudramas which make the white Southerners look like animals; and new documentaries in exactly the same vein are being released every day.

When I was a boy, even the liberal historians wrote balanced histories of The War and of Reconstruction. Nowadays with few exceptions, the "histories" are liberal propaganda that distorts history and vilifies the Confederates and their descendants. It was all about slavery, and later the inexcusable exploitation of the freed blacks

When I was a boy, the Southern news-media did not print disrespectful descriptions of the Confederates and their flags. Now any black activist can call the battle flag the "Nazi swastika," and the Confederates "SS concentration-camp guards," and almost every newspaper and TV station in the South will carry that as straight news.

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