and depression:

1)Both sides of the civil wars had tried to justify their war through religion and biblical quotes; just the myth making was confined to traditional religion. Traditional religions had less hold on chinese than yanks

2)There was quite a bit of 'socialist' or leftist yearning during the depression. The main difference as I pointed out in a previous post that yankie 'leftism' is often just 'boutique leftism' and there's great disconnect between the working class and the 'socialists'. Then you have hollywood to spin deflective magical thinking and illusion to ease the pain. Ever watch 'The purple Rose of Cairo'?

Oprah is a PC reincarnation of Louise Bryant,the 'socialist' wife of John Reed

Might be u can call it the success of the yankie civilsation or the civil war and depression were not bad enuff. Even the depression yielded different result in germany.

Or look at it this way, either u or I were right: The yankie establishment has successfully established through illusion the case that the commies were invading US, the Mccarthy era was a good example