Sounds fascinating !

History is the propaganda of the victorious," observed Voltaire, and the history of America's so-called "cινιℓ ωαr" is no exception…It is under that prevailing narrative that Isaac. C. Bishop, a native of New England and the author of Defending Dixie's Land, came to find his interest in the South. Steeped in that narrative, he accepted it without question…With further research, the Truth began to reveal itself to the author, culminating in this fine book. The Truth cannot be killed. It may be buried alive, but it will not die. Like an archaeologist, Bishop has discovered the tomb of the Truth, and with this book he has rolled the stone away.
- H. V. Traywick, Jr. Author of Empire of the Owls: Reflections on the North’s War Against Southern Secession
The Southern Confederacy and its war for independence has always had defenders among informed students of history. These defenders have appeared in every generation. Some of them are from north of the Potomac or even across the Atlantic. The case for the South is here made again. For the future health of America It must be repeated until it sinks in.
-Clyde Wilson Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History, University of South Carolina

Are you interested in knowing the actual history of your country, or are you content with the propagandized version the winners of wars conjure up to feed schoolchildren? When it comes to the story and tradition of the U.S. South, and especially the events surrounding the cινιℓ ωαr (1861–1865), you may need to brace yourself. What you think you know about it is likely untrue – and not just by a little.

Isaac C Bishop is a lifelong New-Englander who happened to become interested in southern culture. But when he began to earnestly study its history and folklore, he was shocked by what he learned. Thus began an intense multi-year quest to unearth a true story which resulted in Defending Dixie's Land. Should you choose to set aside your preconceived biases and “take the red pill” with the author, you will discover:
• How the United States government was originally meant to function, and by what means that system was usurped in the mid-1800’s
• The real reasons the cotton states initially seceded
• The entirely different factors which prompted the upper South to then also secede
• An accurate picture of what life was like for minorities in both the North and South, and, as inherently wrong as the institution of slavery has always been on planet earth, why southern slaves generally viewed their situation as preferable
• Character traits and motives of Abraham Lincoln which shatter the humanitarian hero image painted in our minds
• Eye-opening facts about African-American support for the Confederacy, the history and current status of slavery worldwide, insights into the true enemy of free peoples everywhere, and more.

Defending Dixie's Land is an all-encompassing defense of the Southern cause; readers will no longer view American history the same.

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1- Look Away!!! Politically Incorrect Information About Life as a Southern Slave
Chapter 2- I’ll Take my Stand-Causes of Southern Secession: The Cotton States
Chapter 3- I’ll Take My Stand Causes of Southern Secession-The Upper South
Chapter 4- Old Times There are not Forgotten- The Union Before Lincoln
Chapter 5- To Live And Die In Dixie - Black Support For The Confederacy
Chapter 6- I Wish I Was in the Land of Cotton- Southern Agrarians vs. Northern Industrialization
Chapter 7- Treatment of Minorities North vs. South
Chapter 8- Will, the Real Abraham Lincoln Please, Stand up?
Chapter 9- Politically Incorrect Information About Slavery
Chapter 10- The Old Times are Gone with the Wind
Conclusion

Thanks for the support and encouragement!!!

As a student of the history of the War of Northern Aggression, I salute your effort and hope to obtain your book soon!

DEO VINDICE! 

I was reading about Stephen Duncan and Sam Houston and "Southern Unionists" just the other day. It seesaws a little but the South really didn't have much of a chance. As a war it wasn't worth it. They used to say, "the South never smiled after Shiloh", meaning that after Shiloh it was already over. They should have gone Corwin amendment. Slavery ended in Brazil in 1888 and Reconstruction bitters for the South lasted until 1877. If the cotton states had had better foresight, they could have seen a better way, although the questions about the constitution can run deep.

Anyway, look at the frequency of overeach and corruption of DC entity principles now.

Not sure I agree. The South had a chance until Lincoln's reelection in 64, which was looking anything but certain during the summer of 64.

As a student of the history of the War of Northern Aggression, I salute your effort and hope to obtain your book soon!

DEO VINDICE!

I thought i would see you on this thread. Thank you and God bless. 

Not sure I agree. The South had a chance until Lincoln's reelection in 64, which was looking anything but certain during the summer of 64.

John Bell Hood and the Army of Tennessee were having a rough go of it even before Spring Hill and Franklin. Sherman torched Atlanta in the middle of November. The Confederacy held on in Virginia but after Gettysburg and Vicksburg it was desperate. Jackson had died at Chancellorsville, shot by his own men, and they were poorly fed, clothed, and armed. At Franklin, Hood really did "play Hell in Tennessee", and it wasn't long after the election. The Union Army had repeating rifles in Georgia and Tennessee and had been shooting up the Army of Tennesse to some significant embarrassment and ruin. Except for Nathan Bedfore Forrest, Confederate maneuvers weren't too successful or in scale.

I appreciate the Jeffersonian view of the US constitution and social conservatism, but the Confederate effort was doomed, imho. The South opened fire on Ft. Sumter because they thought one confederate was equal to ten yankees, and that way they couldn't help but win, but that was before the breechloaders and repeating rifles and so forth. Also, to some degree, the cινιℓ ωαr may have been the result of conspiratorial secret society agitation ... "witchcraft" besides communism ...

I thought i would see you on this thread. Thank you and God bless.

 Oh most assuredly you would find me here!  Just ordered thy book I have. 

"Similar to Catholic Medieval Europe" would represent a tendency to metaphysical realism rather than, say, "nominalism", for example. Besides Christianity, to explain itself, the South also had a sort of militant stoicism or fatalism or even classicism. 

"I'll Take My Stand" by the "Southern Agrarians" and "The Fugitives" at Vanderbilt may be something worthwhile in relation to this topic. Not so long after Reconstruction came the Federal Reserve Bank and the TV ... etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Agrarians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Weaver

Richard Weaver was a professor at the University of Chicago associated with the "Agrarians". He took the time to single out Ockham the nominalist as part of the root of the problem of "modernity". Of course, the root of the problem is heresy and apostasy, yet some people have blamed what's wrong with America on Elvis or the Jews at Wall Street and the Federal Reserve, et cetera, but the academic Weaver blamed it on Ockham because of the growth of nominalism, to which, as a Southerner in Chicago, he felt naturally opposed. There was that sense of medieval scholastic dispute and anti-Englightenment fisticuffs in Dr. Weaver's career.