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3. Foote was definitely sympathetic to the South

Reply to NewHendoLib (Reply #1)

Fri May 15, 2026, 07:58 PM

15 hrs ago

But he wasn't a total Lost Causer. He was a big civil rights supporter in the 1960s and thought the government moved too slow on things like integration throughout the south. He also detested the KKK's use of the Confederate battle flag. On the other hand he had a romanticized view of many of the Confederate leadership from a century earlier.

I'd say he was very complicated - liberal for when/where he grew up, but nowadays he looks too many to be a unreconstructed southerner.

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