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Stories like this always make me feel like the Confederacy won
"the union won the war, the confederacy won the peace" is how my college prof put it
Oh shit
100%. Reading about how reconstruction was mercilessly crushed is heartbreaking and infuriating.
Succinct.
I mean the Reconstruction happened under Andrew Johnson, so pretty much.