Reading 1: Blight, Chapter 8, “The Lost Cause and Causes not Lost”

How did the Lost Cause merge with the burgeoning “New South” to become a cause not lost?

Reading 2: Karen L. Cox, Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture, Chapter 1, "Journey into the Lost Cause," and Chapter 4, "The Monument Builders" (both in the same pdf below)

Question: Cox provides an overview of the UDC’s role in monument building in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries. What do you think was the driving reason for their hard work to erect major monuments?