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smartest_kobold t1_j63kbqs wrote

Reply to comment by V1198 in Hudson, NH woman found guilty on charges related to Capitol attack by rabblebowser

Never true. Reconstruction was actually far too soft.

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owwwwwo t1_j63shjw wrote

We needed to leave union soldiers down South until the 1960s to really have a chance to change their culture.

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WapsuSisilija t1_j63wblc wrote

This is the correct answer.

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warpedaeroplane t1_j68opi0 wrote

If Lincoln hadn’t been killed and Grant could’ve continued his tour of the nation, we’d be in a very different nation right now. Grant, unfortunately, was not the same man as President that he was as General.

We didn’t crush the south after the civil war the way we needed to. We did not do enough to stamp out the ideologies and assuage the southern population - they too quickly were able to fancy themselves downtrodden rebels who would rise again rather than the sufferers of a bloody and awful conflict that stems directly from their own evil ideologies.

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V1198 t1_j6464bb wrote

May have been unclear, I think we made a mistake going soft on the south and that mistake has been with us ever since. Before the civil war we knew how to handle a traitor.

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Different_Ad7655 t1_j66ezo3 wrote

Except remember, that the South voted as a block democratic for almost a century because the hatred of the party of Lincoln was so strong. Even though the Democrats in the late 19th century with a party of labor and in the 20th century progressivism, nonetheless the Democratic vote of the southern block be counted on until civil rights. It was a bitter pill that the Democratic party took and of course the right thing, but it cost the Democratic party dearly and has never quite recovered. Every one of those states now is firmly in the grip of the GOP

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