I don't understand the South.

[KoKo]

89. The "Civil War." The Poverty that happened after Reconstruction when Lincoln was Assassinated.

Lincoln would have done better to bring the South forward and not been so austere with Reconstruction.

It's like the countries we have invaded... The people who suffered who were innocent (they didn't hold slaves and were just plain farmers or businessmen) were caught up in the Planter's War's and the Planters in the South were the equivalent to our Corporate Owners today. The countries we have invaded in the past 12 years will not forget the hardships suffered by the Innocents. I'm drawing an analogy that you might think wouldn't fit...but I grew up in the South...so this is why I'm putting this out. Limited as it is because I don't want to re-fight the Civil War and all the causes and effects here....because it is too complicated for a short post on DU.

The Civil War left scars that were much more remembered with the generation that has just died......but lingers on for many reasons too complicated to get into here.

Southern writer Joe Bageant wrote about this extensively and "The Mind of the South" by another author a scholarly book written in the late 50's or 60's that explains more about why the South became a Renegade as the North Prospered after the Civil War. The larger cities like Atlanta prospered to an extent but Sherman's Army of Destruction on the Poor in the South left long memories...just as it does in any war where those who had nothing to do with it were punished for the Misdeeds of the Ruling Class.

Its complicated....but Joe Bageant does well with explaining it..as a modern writer.