# Is the Confederacy/South more interesting than the Union/North?

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**Created:** [October 11, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-confederacy-south-more-interesting-than-the-union-north/841643 "2019-10-11T18:40:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-confederacy-south-more-interesting-than-the-union-north/841643/148 "2019-10-20T03:31:12Z")

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> [@RioRico](#):
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> A Confederate nation never existed. No country recognized the states waging the War of Southern Treason, which (according to UK reporter WH Russell) was fomented by Carolinians anxious to return to rule from London. Leaders of the Confederacy were oath-breaking traitors. Life in the feudal South was brutal for about all but the very rich. Romanticizing antebellum ls pernicious mythology. Why do we let the losers write history?

Great Britain wrote history after losing the war another group of slave owning traitors started. Who was going to stop them?

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