There’s a lot to unpack there, but essentially, the southern way of life is a myth rooted in nostalgia for the “Old South,” or the plantation south. It started

There’s a lot to unpack there, but essentially, the southern way of life is a myth rooted in nostalgia for the “Old South,” or the plantation south. It started after southern Democrats “redeemed” the south from Reconstruction. They invented a revisionist history known as “The Lost Cause,” which was about the so-called noble Confederacy fighting “The War of Northern Aggression.” This ideology crossed into the mainstream, most notably when they released the film “The Birth of a Nation.” It’s this period of time when the Jim Crow laws were created and white southerners created systems to keep white supremacy in power. Today, this legacy has created the folks who wave their flags. Religion was just one way they spread that message. And, aside from that unfortunate part of southern culture, the south is a multi-cultural, complicated place.