Trump has "blundering generation" view of the Civil War. UPDATE.

TRUMP GIVES BLUNDERING GENERATION EXPLANATION FOR THE CIVIL WAR.


This is taught in our school books so it shouldn't be surprising that Donald Trump believes in it.

Not just marginal textbooks, but some of the most prominent and respected textbooks.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/trump-magna-cum-laude-from-the-dunning-school/524892/


UPDATE:

Incidentally, sign our petition asking Trump not to send a wreath to the Arlington Confederate memorial.

http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/sign-2017-petition-to-president-trump.html

"The Civil War's Dirty Secret: It Was Always About Slavery," by Christopher Dickey at the "Daily Beast"

The Lost Cause view of the Confederacy and the Civil War is rejected emphatically in this article by Christopher Dickey at the Daily Beast.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/10/the-civil-war-s-dirty-secret-it-was-always-about-slavery.html

The article concludes:

But there are times, and maybe today is one of those times, when one looks at the great questions of race and rights in the United States and realizes the spirit of the fire-eaters—their rationalization of racism, their contempt for the federal government, their penchant for violence, their self-deluding vision of their place in the world, and their desire to impose their values on the majority—all that, I am afraid, lives on.

Quartz has a good article about how the Civil War was over slavery, not states' rights

The article is here:

http://qz.com/378533/for-the-last-time-the-american-civil-war-was-not-about-states-rights/

It’s a self-delusion some use to justify neo-Confederate pride: stars-and-bars bumper stickers, or remnants of Confederate iconography woven into some of today’s state flags. “It’s about Southern pride,” they insist. “It’s about heritage”—forgetting, intentionally perhaps, that slavery and its decade-spanning echoes are very much a part of the collective American heritage. Confederate denialism, in the form of states’ rights advocacy, permits sentimentalists to keep their questionable imagery without having to address its unsavory associations.