Karen L. Cox
Karen L. Cox was born in Huntington, West Virginia. She moved with her family to North Carolina when she was eleven and attended public schools in Greensboro. She has also lived in Mississippi and Washington, DC. Now a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she is the author of Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture and Dreaming of Dixie: How the South was Created in American Popular Culture. She also authors the blog Pop South: Reflections on the South in Popular Culture. She’s currently writing a book about a 1932 murder in Natchez, MS, a true Southern gothic story that made national headlines.
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I just read your article in NYTimes (What Trump shares with Confederacy ‘Lost Cause.’)
It’s an interesting article; Trump’s excessive White-pride and identity – does indeed imbue his politics.
..and no doubt you’re a very accomplished historian.
You say in the article that the lost cause and found support in White Northerners. I’m not sure that is what happened. I am only a 2nd-generation American – who grew up in Yankee territory. It wasn’t until I traveled with my work that I discovered the history of the Old South – and how after the civil-war that those people moved west to Oklahoma, Idaho, the Dakotas.. California.. to the West.. and they intermarried with Northerners. Some of my cousins married them. I think that’s how.. their Lost-Cause and States Rights theories became part of northern and western families.
Correction: “that the Lost Cause (found) support in (White) Northerners..”
Ms Cox,
The first Statue to honor United States Colored Troops in Virginia will be erected in Rocky Mount VIRGINIA January 18, 2026. The “Raising the Shade Franklin County VA 1850-1910” project invites you to join us! Your work has inspired us to move forward in Celebrating 70 USCT Soldiers BORN in FC. It has helped me personally to understand the negative reaction of our Historical Museum ‘s Director, who is a strong UDC member.
Please check us out and consider joining us!
Fondly,
Glenna Moore 540.493.1597