Sometimes the winners don't write history. The idea that they always do is a useful propaganda tool for the neo-Confederates, of course, much like their beloved myth of the "liberal media."
To be fair to Whedon, I think he was deliberately modeling the world of Firefly not on post-Civil War America, but on Hollywood's version thereof; the gray and butternut just came along for the ride.
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Date: 2011-09-01 08:07 pm (UTC)To be fair to Whedon, I think he was deliberately modeling the world of Firefly not on post-Civil War America, but on Hollywood's version thereof; the gray and butternut just came along for the ride.