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