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"After the South had been conquered by war and humiliated and impoverished by peace, there appeared still to remain something which made the South different--something intangible, incomprehensible, in the realm of the spirit. That too must be invaded and destroyed; so there commenced a second war of conquest, the conquest of the Southern mind, calculated to remake every Southern opinion, to impose the Northern way of life and thought upon the South, write "error" across the pages of Southern history which were out of keeping with the Northern legend, and set the rising and unborn generations upon stools of everlasting repentance." Frank Lawrence Owsley (one of the Twelve Southern Agrarians, 1890-1956, Alabamian) in his essay, ‘The Irrepressible Conflict’ in ‘I'll Take My Stand,’ published originally in 1930.HT: Lynn Lynne Smith Neal