The Making of a Confederate Author:William L. Barney For all the advances of the Civil Rights movement, and for all the cultural diversity attending economic prosperity, many white Southerners have been unable to relinquish the Confederate past and the idea of a heroic, liberty-loving South crushed by power-hungry Yankees. The Making of a Confederate uses the life of one man, Walt... more »er Lenoir of North Carolina, to explore the origins of Southern white identity and the myriad ambiguities and complexities embedded in that history.« less