The Daughters of the Confederacy have been more bitter than the Sons of Veterans or than the veterans themselves.

The effect of recent events upon their psychology has been interesting.

In the Great War their sons and grandsons were called to go overseas, and the national government was brought closer to them than at any other time for more than forty years.
It is idle to insist that before this there had been any ardent affection in the South for the United States.

There had been acceptance of the national situation, perhaps an intellectual acknowledgment that all may have been for the best, but no warm nationalism had been developed before the Great War came.

Loyalty was passive rather than active.
The closing of the chasm has been hailed many times, notably at the time of the Spanish War, but no keen observer has been deceived for a moment.
The recent world crisis, however, seems to have swept aside all hindrances.