As I was reading the chapter from Confederates in the attic, I couldn't help but think of how far away from the truth it seemed to me. Yes I know I could be wrong about it, but after 18 years of living in the South, I have yet to meet anyone so obsessed with the "War Between the States." It's not like evereyont who live int the South is like that, which is what I felt the author misrepresented. I'm not saying that the author is telling lies. I'm sure there are people like that in the South. What I'm saying is that I hope in the chapters to come the author did a better job of representing the South. Because everyone who lives in the South is not like that.
As I kept reading further and further into the chapter, I honestly did begin to feel offended. And I could only think, no wonder UNC was sued. Especially if they said the book was a good representation of the South. Otherwise without that preconception, I don't mind reading the book because it is a new view point from some Southerners that I never knew about. I never knew people were still so obsessed with the Civil War. Yet to me it seems like they're doing themselves a misjustice by focusing that much of their lives on the Civil War. Yeah , I know the world is not prefect, but there are things in the present that can be nice and can allow one to bear the "horrible" present, as a character in the chapter stated.
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