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
If you want to ask

如果你问到
what was the biggest success

在内战记忆的长期斗争中
in the long struggle over Civil War memory,

最大的成功是什么
it was the success of the Lost Cause ideology

答案就是这种意识形态的成功地
in selling themselves to northerners who bought in and said,

传播至北方并被北方人接受他们说
"Yes, the nation has finally triumphed over the mistake of Reconstruction."

"国家终于解决了重建问题上的错误"