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Southern Discomfort (2017)

Southern Discomfort is a documentary film that examines white southerners' love affair with the Confederacy. It also examines the role that state governments in the south play in maintaining a distorted and racist mythology about the Civil War.

(Warning: Racist Language in Film)

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