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In 1896, the organization established the Children of the Confederacy to impart similar values to younger generations through a mythical depiction of the Civil War and Confederacy. According to historian Kristina DuRocher, "Like the KKK's children's groups, the UDC utilized the Children of the Confederacy to impart to the rising generations their own white-supremacist vision of the future."“The object of the organization included uniting the “children and youth of the South in some work to aid and honor ex-Confederates and their descendants.” The Children of the Confederacy was intended to “indoctrinate southern youth into the culture of the Confederate ‘Lost Cause.’” (DuRocher) "When UDC took up the cause of history they did so as cultural guardians of their tribe, defenders of a sacred past against Yankee-imposed ignorance and the forces of modernism. They built moats around their white tribe's castles to save the children from false history and impure knowledge." (Blight) "the perpetuation of conservative class values, as well as a pro-southern version of history" in oder to "creditably fill the place of men and women who have in the past given the [South] both name and fame." (Cox)

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https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/United_Daughters_of_the_Confederacy#start_entry Encyclopedia Virginia United Daughters of the Confederacy Contributed by Caroline E. Janney

At the same time that the women's club movement was gaining national popularity, the South was immersed in a new round of racial conflict. As the self-appointed guardians of southern and Confederate history, many southern white women born during or after Reconstruction (1865–1877) used the Daughters to commemorate the traditional privileges of race, gender, and class by casting them as "natural" parts of the region's history.

The UDC's efforts to instill a reverence for states' rights, with white supremacy imbedded in this philosophy, had long-term consequences for both southern race relations and the perception of the organization. As historian Karen Cox has pointed out, the generation of children raised on this Lost Cause interpretation of the Civil War was the same generation that engaged in Massive Resistance against public school desegregation in the middle of the twentieth century.

In the aftermath of the civil rights movement, the Daughters' veneration of their Confederate heritage—and, by association, white supremacy—has made them the subject of controversy. In the winter of 2000, for example, they became embroiled in the debate about removing the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina state capitol.