how the forces of reconciliation overwhelmed

在国民文化中妥协的力量是如何压倒了
that emancipationist vision in the national culture,

解放主义思想
and how an inexorable drive for reunion of North and South,

以及南北统一是不可阻挡的趋势
both used race and then trumped it.

双方都利用了种族并成功了
But the story

而这一故事
doesn't just dead-end in this white supremacy victory,

并不是以白人至上主义获胜结束这么简单
this Lost Cause victory,

或是"命定败局"获胜
because eventually the Lost Cause

因为"败局命定"
wasn't about causes lost at all.

并不是导致失败的罪魁祸首
The Lost Cause ideology of the South

南方的"败局命定"这种意识形态
became a victory narrative,

演变成了一种对于胜利的描述
and the victory, they argued, was a national victory over Reconstruction.

而这种胜利是在重建问题上的国民性胜利