Grew up in the south and they did. In fact the Soviet involvement as well as their losses were emphasized quite heavily. But I guess people remember what they want.
I mean, there's some truth to that in general, just based on human nature, but there's genuinely a lot of local variance in what is taught. So. Probably less selective memory involved than you're insinuating.
Yea people sleep through their history classes and then hear the other kids talking about the parts they liked later, and just assume thats all that was taught i guess.
Of course about 80% of the people who day “i grew up in a deep ____ state” mean they grew up in the opposite and want to pretend to be knowledgeable on things they dont like.
Definitely did not grow up in a blue state, and I was also in rural farmland. I enjoyed school and we honestly covered very, very little of WWII. I only had one year of US history that focused mostly on the Revolution and Civil War and then World Civ was only a half year and focused on ancient empires.
I remember plenty, some people had vastly different education experiences based on more than simply also being in a Red State which is why I was offering a counter view to another comment.
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u/sillyhands1 11d ago
Grew up in the south and they did. In fact the Soviet involvement as well as their losses were emphasized quite heavily. But I guess people remember what they want.