A historian we interviewed for our Kentucky episode of TrueSouth named Charles Reagan Wilson told us that the losers of the Civil War had to make sense of having been defeated in what their leaders called a “holy war,” and he said something that resonated with me: “Winston Churchill said that the Irish remember the defeats long after the English have forgotten the victories. And in a sense, that was true of the Union sympathizers in Kentucky. They went on to other things. But the people who lost, their cause became the Lost Cause. And so, they’re the ones, the white Kentucky Confederate
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