Why Are There So Many Confederate Vampires?

In the late 2000s and 2010s, the three major vampire series of the time: True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, and Twilight—all featured male vampire characters who were members of the Confederacy. Bill Compton, Damon Salvatore, and Jasper Hale. We are going to try and figure out why? Why those character backstory decisions were made, the legacy of the Confederacy in cinema, and most importantly, what it says that all these choices were made and primarily uncritically dealt with in or outside the universe.

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Time Stamps

00:00
01:12 What Was The Confederacy?
07:10 Jasper Hale
15:07 Bill Compton
19:45 Damon Salvatore
23:53 How Did We Get Here?
28:15 Oh Hey, Firefly
38:00 TL;DR
40:35 Announcement & Book Recommendation

Gone With the Wind Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G24rgrtBa04&t=1s

Sources:

The Confederate Flag and the Meaning of Southern History by Kevin Thornton (https://www.jstor.org/stable/26235412)

The Civil War at the Sesquicentennial: How Well Do Americans Understand Their Great National Crisis? By GARY W. GALLAGHER (https://www.jstor.org/stable/26062064?read-now=1#page_scan_tab_contents)

Lost Cause Motherhood: Southern Women Writers by Glenn Robins (https://www.jstor.org/stable/4233937)

https://stepheniemeyer.com/2009/11/new-moon-qa-with-stephenie/

https://rsc.byu.edu/civil-war-saints/what-means-carnage-civil-war-mormon-thought

"The Fall of the House of Dixie"

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