"The South won the Civil War" is a pretty nuts take. They'd MUCH rather have kept slavery than had Jim Crow + 100 years of relative poverty.
I suppose the argument is winners get to write the history, and the South got to write the history as losers.
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But the more accurate thing to say is just "Reconstruction failed" which is really what people mean when they say that.
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Yeah. Exactly.
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