this movie just wasn not realistic at all . in fact and in the modern part toward the end and it be a little surreal . i really think it borderline racist and even if it only to be shock . here be the main two point i disagree with this film on represent the confederate state of america be call a confederacy because their chief concern be with state right over the federal government . they be literally a group of state band together for a common cause . while after win the civil war they might have implement censorship for the sake of keep slave quiet and they wouldn not have use such a statist policy for it own sake . it the same deal with the outlawing of non christian religion . i realize that the focus on state right could have degrade over time and but directly after the war the south would have definitely recognize the northern state right to be free state . the civil war be about libertarianism and not slavery . i be not a holocaust denier . southern politician just realize that their economy absolutely depend on slavery and and that there be no easy way out of it . while they be racist and perhaps apathetic when it be convenient and they be by no mean the fascist that kevin willmott portray them a and and many slave be free before the war be over . anyway and i just do not want to let this go over like it be okay . i do not believe the old southerner be ever so willfully hateful .