ARE YOU INTERESTED IN KNOWING the actual history of your country, or are you content with the propagandized version the winners of wars conjure up to feed school children? When it comes to the story and tradition of the U.S. South, and especially the events surrounding the Civil War (1861-1865), you may need to brace yourself. What you think you know about it is likely untrue-and not just by a little. Isaac C. Bishop is a lifelong New-Englander who happened to become interested in Southern culture. But when he began to earnestly study its history and folklore, he was shocked by what he learned. Thus us began an intense multi-year quest to unearth a true story which resulted in DEFENDING DIXIE'S LAND. Should you choose to set aside your preconceived biases and "take the red pill" with the author, you will discover: How the United States government was originally meant to function, and by what means that system was usurped in the mid-1800's. The real reasons the cotton states initially seceded. The entirely different factors which prompted the upper South to then also secede.An accurate picture of what life was like for minorities in both the North and South and as inherently wrong as the institution of slavery is, it has always been on planet earth.Why Southern slaves generally viewed their situation as preferable.Abraham Lincoln's character traits and motives that challenge his humanitarian hero image.Eye-opening facts about African-American support for the ConfederacyThe history and current status of slavery worldwide, insights into the true enemy of free peoples everywhere, and much more. DEFENDING DIXIE'S LAND is an all-encompassing defense of the Southern cause; readers will no longer view American history the same.