Lost Cause
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Derived from the generic term lost cause.
Proper noun[edit]
- The belief that the Confederate cause during the American Civil War was just and not related to slavery.
- 1993 April, H. E. Gulley, “Women and the Lost Cause: preserving a Confederate identity in the American Deep South”, in Journal of Historical Geography[1], volume 19, number 2, , →ISSN, pages 125–141:
- Also implicit was the idea that all southerners accepted the basic tenets of the Lost Cause myth and concurred in this celebration of the Confederacy.