The racism and the myth of the North "pillaging" the defeated South are inseparable
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Think abt the outrage over "40 acres and a mule", something that DID NOT ACTUALLY HAPPEN but probably should have
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The sheer absurdity of emancipating people but not the wealth those people made with unpaid labor
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Something that again the North COULD HAVE DONE but DID NOT DO
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A cultural pattern of that war was that hardcore Rebels saw Yankees as foreigners to whom they owed nothing, not even basic decency
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Whereas Lincoln's official philosophy - laid out in the Gettysburg Address - was that the Rebels were wayward kin to be brought home
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This is a pattern that has persisted in its myriad twistings and turnings to this day
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Big city liberals talk incessantly about wooing Trump voters while the Trump voters talk about locking them up or pushing them into the sea
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Frederick Douglass' obit of Lincoln talks about this American liberal obsession with unity, the idea of America
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Lincoln loved the Union more than he hated slavery (which he did hate) or he loved black ppl (which he admitted on a personal lvl he didn't)
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What he really wanted was for America to Do Better *together*, and the whole war was informed by that desire
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If the North had in fact treated the South as an enemy to defeat rather than as family to bring home things might've been different
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But man, is that mindset ever still alive. Don't "write off" Trump voters, don't "dismiss them as racists"
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