Opinion column by John Archibald: Bryan Stevenson argues that the South lost the Civil War, but won the narrative war. And the rest of the nation, well, they just sort of let it happen, Stevenson told me in a recent interview. Sure, there was a 14th Amendment that guaranteed equal protection, and a 15th Amendment that was supposed to do the same for the right to vote, but it didn’t always work out that way. “The U.S. Supreme Court retreated from enforcing those constitutional rights, and instead prioritized state’s rights,” said Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery and best-selling author of “Just Mercy.” “And state’s rights were all about White domination of Black people,” he went on. “It was about restoring power to the oligarchs, who had lost during the Civil War, making sure that they had the mechanisms to control poor White people and Black people. And that’s been the history of the South ever since.” It has. It is. You can read it in th...