Florida Republicans going ham right now
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The first in a long line of dominoes, I hope. Where's my other southern states whom still bear that old Rebel spirit?
The South won reconstruction. There were various southern partisans that harassed the Northern occupation forces the entire time. It came to a head when Wade Hampton won the governorship of South Carolina following a wave of bloody street fighting. He subtly threatened to kick off a second round of open warfare if the North didn't leave, so they did.
Many Northerners had grown sympathetic to the South as they were being tyrannized by the occupation forces. Ironically by the end, the North had adopted the Southern view of race and the South took up Northern economics. This all tends to get glossed over because, in the post-colonial framework of the New Left, the South inevitably appears as the subaltern fighting for liberation from Northern colonialism.
The North always was, and is, racist but not in the same way as the South. The Yankees didn't have much exposure to blacks until after the war, when there was a large migration northwards. Before, they wanted to save the noble savage. After, they thought blacks needed to be segregated and strictly managed, which persists to this day informally despite the stated preferences of affluent white progressives.
Lol dude is slandering my region while trying to glorify the shit show that was reconstruction
No, my friend, it just got put away for the day when its righteous fury could be properly used.
You jest ...