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what was the myth of the lost cause? a belief that the south could never have won the war because northern soldiers exerted greater virtue and courage a glorification of the memory of the confederacy and a romanticization of the old south as a pastoral land with benevolent masters and happy slaves the belief among northerners that southerners would never accept racial equality all of the above

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The Lost Cause is a post-Civil War myth that sought to reframe the Confederacy and pre-war South in a positive, romanticized light, downplaying the horrors of slavery and framing the South's cause as noble. It does not center on Northern virtues or Northern beliefs about Southern racial attitudes.

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A glorification of the memory of the Confederacy and a romanticization of the Old South as a pastoral land with benevolent masters and happy slaves