Please help me with the name of a book.

[essaynnc]

About 10 years ago, I read a book about a continuing conspiracy of Southern rich people trying to bring back the antebellum, eventually to take over and overthrow the US government. The woman author went looking at the University of Virginia and found an entire trove of documents that suggested it had been going on since the end of the civil war and was continuing to this day.

Is this what the heritage foundation and their ilk are now up to?

Thank you in advance!

[jmbar2]

1. Nancy McLean's "Democracy in Chains" ?

[flying_wahini]

5. Yea, this is the book.

[LudwigPastorius]

2. All I unearthed was this 2013 novel, that is portrayed as factually based on a "found" diary.

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_South_Will_Rise_Again_Memoirs_of_a_S.html?id=-EJ9ngEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description

[TommyT139]

3. It's deeper than Heritage Fdn

Someone here recommended the documentary "Bad Faith," released this year. It's 88 minutes and available through Amazon Prime (poss. small rental fee) and on Tubi (free in my area, includes commercials).

It certainly includes history of how fundamentalist Christians were seeking to preserve segregation, particularly in schools, even before employing an anti-abortion as a vehicle for broader messaging. It draws connections between the dark money that influenced corruption of the Supreme Court, the undermining of voting rights, and the emerging into the open of the dozens of conservative organizations that are trying to enact Project 2025, whether Trump gets into power again or not.

Very powerful, infuriating, and somewhat discouraging (for me)...but crucial viewing for these dangerous times.

[FuzzyRabbit]

4. The confederacy has never actually surrendered.

Southern rich people trying to bring back the antebellum, eventually to take over and overthrow the US government.. . .

Is this what the heritage foundation and their ilk are now up to?

Yes. I have believed this for years. It explains a lot.

[DemocraticPatriot]

6. "The confederacy has never actually surrendered." HEH, that seems TRUE---

General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia,
and all their smaller armies surrendered thereafter--
those among them who did not flee to Mexico---

but the Confederate government itself never formally surrendered,
it only dissolved,
and President Davis was only captured and imprisoned,
but he didn't really 'surrender' either...

I think that question never actually arose, because we didn't recognize the Confederacy as its own country with a legitimate government--- not like France surrendering to the Germans, for instance---
so there was no need for the Confederate government to surrender to the Union,
in the northern point of view--- only to capitulate or fade away.