The tittle “Confederates in the Attic” fits in very well as you read through the book. Horowitz demonstrates though his travels though the south how the confederacy idea of separatism, Xenophobia, self righteousness, anti-government and distrust of the north still persist today. In his travels thought the south Horowitz meets …show more content…
He is a man that took the reenactment to a new level. He explains how he is used in pictures for magazines to portray a civil was soldier. He also meets a German Historian that is interested about the Civil War, and he tells Horowitz about his experiences in the south and how he has to make up a story about his past in order to fit in better, during his travels. My favorite report is when Tony Horowitz visits Todd County to report on the murder of Michael Westerman, a man that was murdered by a gunshot that was fired from a car containing black teenagers, for having a Confederate flag on the back of his pickup truck. There he sees how stupid and ridicules some of the people feel that the Confederate flag represents and how naïve people are about what they teach their