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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
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"White" is not really the word, because folks from the Caucasus region are Muslim AF and literal caucasians, lol. Western European culture/identity is more fitting, with America being the unholy spawn of British and France, influenced as well by post-WW2 Germany (Operation Paperclip and all of that).
But that's also not it, since 'whiteness' includes a milieu far outside of Western Europe, including people without Western European ancestry. Conversely, those who are steeped in Western European culture and identity are not always recognized as white.
... no, not at all. White identity was not only long-established by then, but the post-WW2 consensus, cultivated in part by the backlash against Nazism, was the beginning of the dismantling of white identity hegemony, a process that laboriously continues to this day.