Is the Civil War Still Raging

Is the Civil War still Raging?

 As a student of history, it's suddenly become very clear what the animosity between some of the southern leadership and the government may be...it's because there is a silent modifier to "government" that explains everything.  That modifier is Yankee.  Oh, I know the Civil War was a long time ago but many southerners have not forgotten anything.  Those with a big problem with "the government" are not using the silent modifier because it would make them look a little crazy but I'm sure that's it.  I'm reading a very interesting book about the Civil War and the war actually continued for a long time after the cease fire.  The defeat left a bitter taste especially in the wealthy who financed the war and lost literally everything including their ability to build back up (without free labor).  The "Yankee government" could be defeated in other ways and so they began to try to undermine every attempt to integrate the south with its new way of life.  The state that made the greatest strides in defeating the Yankee government was Mississippi, with the help of the Klan.  The Klan was the preferred instrument in keeping "the proper order" in the south---no slave would ever really be "freed" as long as they could undermine everything the "Yankee government" tried to accomplish.  The Klan was the "shadow" army, still fighting Yankee occupation.  The Klan was the shadow government in many states and was very welcome by those who believed they had every right to insurrection and no right to accept defeat!  The Klan only lost it's hold as we all moved into the future and many whites had no taste for pursuing the false goals set by individuals who only desired to fight a war that was lost many years ago...blacks as well as white preferred to forget the "power" of this group of guerilla fighters.  We now have at least one state flying the Confederate flag over it's state house.  So we need to remember that  many southerners called the war, "The War of Northern Aggression"--and for many today, there really is no ONE government, there is only the "Yankee government" and them.  What we're really fighting here is something that never died, the ghost of a southern government that has no intention of complying with the "Yankee Government".  I think it's worth thinking about...especially in light of the Tea Party trying to organize it's own Southern Revolution.