text:  And this is something that absolutely comes up, you know, in the Vietnam era. We could name many prominent United States politicians who got out of serving in Vietnam because they were basically connected. So I think that the night they drove old Dixie down in the tradition of kind of fictions of the Confederacy is drastically different than something like Birth of a Nation or Gone with the Wind, which are coming out of a very different historical moment that are sort of putting the mythology of the Confederacy to a different use.