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Willing Spirit's avatar

I suspect we don’t know half the real story. What the government was doing in the South during reconstruction made it a dangerous place for Anglo-Saxons to live.

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Mitch's avatar

We've been living through a Reconstruction 2.0 the past decade or so, and I really can imagine what those southerners must have felt like dealing with the occupation of Federal troops and the massive fraud and corruption of government at all levels.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

And explains citizens having to organize to defend themselves and lingering concerns leading to putting some laws in place once there was opportunity.

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