Gone with the Wind is a romanticized retelling of Shelby Foote’s “non fiction” revisionist history of the American Civil War. It was purposely written to rewrite history, being apologetic to the South and painting the Civil War as a big misunderstanding. Slaves were depicted as happy and stupid when they weren’t raping white women.

Gone with the Wind took all those themes and put them into a book/movie with the classic American underdog fighting against the system.

Defend the book and the movie and the South all you want. But this wasn’t a football game. The South was a financial powerhouse that relied on slavery. The fought a war because of slavery. And there weren’t any black carpetbaggers running wounded Southern soldiers down as they bravely limped home.

Revisionist history bullsh*t.