As with many facts there's a surface level truth, then all this complicated stuff, then a deep truth that's the same as the surface one
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If you watch Birth of a Nation his example of Northern depredations on the South is letting black people vote and hold office
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The racism and the myth of the North "pillaging" the defeated South are inseparable
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Suppose the South had been treated more harshly. The States dissolved, reconstituted with new borders and military govt >
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all Confed officers, governors, state leg tried for treason, many executed. Would we be better or worse off today?
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@arthur_affect Exactly! But it was slaveowners who had committed theft, of lives and labor. -
The south was to blame for the Civil War and 150 years later they continue to blame others for their misconduct.
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Visited Lookout Mountain several years ago. Their Visitor Center still refers to the "War of Northern Aggression."
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