From JoAnn Williams at Biased Unbalanced and Politically Incorrect:
We have torn down statues, renamed streets, and are in the process of renaming schools. Many of the statues memorialize past leaders of our country, men who followed the flawed dictates of their base. Dixie’s Daughters, The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture not only provided funds for these statues but worked to reject textbooks that said slavery was the cause of the civil war.
If memory serves me, my high school history teacher said the dispute over the state’s rights was the cause of the civil war. Even today in Texas the State Board of Education, permits politically driven textbooks that are sanitized to the extent students are growing up with watered-down concepts of history.