I WILL NEVER FORGIVE TRUMP VOTERS: We now have concentration camps.

[PJMcK]

19. The Civil War

Funny name for a war that was anything but civil.

I completely agree with you that the period after the Civil War was mishandled. The leaders of the Confederacy should have been tried and convicted of treason. Instead, towns, schools and roads were named after the villains. Statues were built to memorialize the "greatness" of these traitorous leaders. A myth was created that the "South will rise again" as if their treason was glorious. That myth still hangs over those states and along with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has solidified the South into a backwater of poorly educated ignorant people who consistently not against their own interests.

Further, the half-assed way the freed slaves were treated exacerbated the racism that persists to this day. Imagine how different our world would be without that "original sin" haunting the United States!