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That's a good point. I look forward to learning more about reconstruction, which will be the next stop on my reading journey. Like the civil war, I remember ver
by binarynate 5y ago
That's a good point. I look forward to learning more about reconstruction, which will be the next stop on my reading journey. Like the civil war, I remember very little of the details of reconstruction that were covered in school.
- zozbot234 5y agoOne could easily argue that true reconstruction was not really tried in the Democrat-dominated South until well after the 20th-c. Civil Rights Era. It was only with radical Republicans' reform efforts culminating in the 1980s that the formerly backward, socially archaic "South" was turned into the free-wheeling and economically successful 'Sunbelt' of the present day. This is often overlooked by many political commentators who look at the otherwise unexplained, sudden popularity of Republicanism in the Sunbelt, and make up weird theories such as "the parties must have switched", or something. The reality is of course far subtler and more interesting than that!
- bradneuberg 5y agoI highly recommend Eric Foners book The Second Founding on the Reconstruction period.