Why I don't want to see this movie
I'm a Civil War history fan but I do not want to see this movie.
That should not stop anyone else who wants to see the movie.
I don't want to watch the movie because we all know that it did nothing to change the course of post-Civil War history. After federal occupation of the South ended in 1877, the former Confederate states moved quickly to regain power within their respective states. First on their agenda was to keep the black man in his place. A dark curtain of American apartheid descended upon the South for the next one hundred years.
American apartheid and the Jim Crow laws (an example of when the U.S. Supreme Court failed the United States) was a plague upon the Southern states. It kept the black man as peasants and serfs in the South. For over one-hundred years the white southerners were content to live in their quasi-medieval world, not realizing that apartheid and Jim Crow kept the South from advancing much further than it could have. But the white Southerners could not and would not acknowledge a possible future of the South that was far better than what they could see in front of them.
Only at the end of the 20th century did that start to change in any significant way and progress is still on-going.
MISSISSIPPI: In the 150 years following the Civil War, the state of Mississippi cultivated an unsavory reputation as the nexus of all racial bigotry and hatred, with the state of Arkansas close behind. American history books all through the 20th century repeated this history. Mississippi was America's Afghanistan, a land where time stood still and the natives were mired in their medieval, narrow-minded past, ultra-conservatism and dogged, stubborn, even violent resistance to change. No one in America outside these particular Southern states harbored any desire to visit much less tour any part of it, where visitors were sure to receive a cold even hostile reception. The typical American tourist was more likely to visit communist China and receive a warmer welcome rather than tour the dark highways and byways of mysterious Mississippi. These states were places where you hoped your car didn't break down on the major through interstate nor did you want to be stopped and accosted by sinister highway patrol cops wearing Smokey Bear hats and reflector sunglasses, blowing cigar or cigarette smoke in your face with their hands gripping .38 or .357 revolvers and telling you to get out of the car. Eventually change can and does come, even if it does come slowly because thank the Lord that people don't live forever.