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.
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address is a fun read for destroying the regime narrative. Lincoln is the only sitting President to endorse an amendment to the constitution to protect slavery:
I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution--which amendment, however, I have not seen--has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.
Every side in a war has it's own narrative. The Southern narrative is that it was about their peculiar institution of slavery, partly because the anxiety over whites being genocided as happened in Haiti was very motivating for the war effort. The Northern narrative is that it was about preserving the Union as Lincoln addresses here:
It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union... I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability, I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States... The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Ironically again, progressives have taken up the Southern narrative of the war, except they are disappointed the South didn't get the Haiti experience.
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.
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address is a fun read for destroying the regime narrative. Lincoln is the only sitting President to endorse an amendment to the constitution to protect slavery:
Every side in a war has it's own narrative. The Southern narrative is that it was about their peculiar institution of slavery, partly because the anxiety over whites being genocided as happened in Haiti was very motivating for the war effort. The Northern narrative is that it was about preserving the Union as Lincoln addresses here:
Ironically again, progressives have taken up the Southern narrative of the war, except they are disappointed the South didn't get the Haiti experience.
Lol dude is slandering my region while trying to glorify the shit show that was reconstruction
How did he slander your region?