History Main / StillFightingTheCivilWar

* ''Film/FortyTwo'': One of UsefulNotes/JackieRobinson's teammates refers to this trope by name when talking about southern crowds booing Jackie for breaking the color barrier in UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball

->'''Professor Saxton''': I admire Poland, madam. I believe there is a bond between our two countries.\\
'''Countess Irina''': My husband, the Count Petrovski, says that in the fifteenth century your King Henry betrayed us to the Russians, hmm?\\
'''Saxton''': I hope that you and your husband, madam, will accept my profoundest apologies.
-->--''Film/HorrorExpress''

* On one ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ("Southern Fried Rabbit", 1953), WesternAnimation/BugsBunny encounters a Rebel general (WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam) who still believes the war is on and [[AbsurdlyDedicatedWorker is still following orders given to him by Robert E. Lee]] to blast any Yankee that tries to cross the Mason-Dixon Line. When Bugs informs him that [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the war ended almost 90 years ago]] (as of the time of the cartoon's release), Sam's response is "I ain't no clock-watcher!"

* In a ''WesternAnimation/DeputyDawg'' short, the gang encounter an old Confederate soldier causing trouble who thinks the war is still going on.

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** Since late 2010s, a lot of people both in Russia and abroad have had an impression the UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin is still fighting the Cold War.

** On that note, at least so far as [[PropagandaMachine Russian official media]] of early 2020s are concerned, Russia is still fighting ''World War II'', what with denouncing the Ukrainian government and military as "neo-Nazis". In a more minor example, at least some Russian pundits call the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (basically, EU's foreign minister) Josep Borrel as an "old fascist" apperently simply due to the fact that he grew up in Francoist Spain (never mind that he was involved in the left-wing PSOE ever since its legalization).

* 100 years later, UsefulNotes/RedOctober is still a hotly disputed political issue in Russia, that divides people and parties more than their actual political positions. Some, especially the communists, praise Lenin and his victorious Red faction. But there's also a sizable fandom of the nationalist/monarchist White Movement, who believe the whole Russian Revolution was staged by German intelligence, and consider Tsar Nicholas II a saint. Ironically, while nationalists and communists hate each other because of differing views on history, they actually share a lot of common ground, both being conservative, generally anti-Western and nostalgic of some past era, either Imperial Russia or Soviet Union.

* ''Series/MyWorldAndWelcomeToIt'': The character of John's great-grandpa Skinner is encountered in "The Night the House Caught Fire" — and as John tells Lydia, "For grandpa, the Civil War had never ended. We always had to keep him from freeing our cook." He’s an atypical example of a veteran from the Yankee side shown believing this, one who among other things is seen wearing a Union soldier’s cap and reciting the poem "Barbara Frietchie" with gusto. Subverted as it's eventually revealed that great-grandpa Skinner was never actually in the war (he worked in a brewery in Cincinnati during those years) and made his stories up to entertain John and his siblings.

* ''Series/MyWorldAndWelcomeToIt'': The character of John's great-grandpa Skinner is encountered in "The Night the House Caught Fire" — and as John tells Lydia, "For grandpa, the Civil War had never ended. We always had to keep him from freeing our cook." He’s an atypical example of a veteran from the Yankee side shown believing this, one who among other things is seen reciting the poem "Barbara Frietchie" with gusto. Subverted as it's eventually revealed that great-grandpa Skinner was never actually in the war (he worked in a brewery in Cincinnati during those years) and made his stories up to entertain John and his siblings.