“Everywhere that there is aristocracy in the world, there is sympathy for the Confederacy, and rejoicing that this civil war looks like it's finally going to paid for good to these notions of democracy.”

— Allen C. Guelzo

2010s, Interview with Andre Damon (2013)

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American historian 1953

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