Recommended Reading in Slate: "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"

 "The song is set sometime in the late 19^th century and tells the story of a Southern man looking back on the fall of the Confederacy, and it’s come to resonate among a certain good-old-boy set as a musical emblem of regional chauvinism and neo-Confederate nostalgia, as James’ recollection suggests."

Or is it? 
Read their dissection of the Early James song. Is it a celebration of the fall of the confederacy...or a celebration of the confederacy itself?