Reply #12: Just because there was a war [View All]

[terrell9584]

It didn't given the North the right to send the carpetbaggers down here, loot all of the governments and then flee back up North when the gettin' was good and leaving all the places they looted to deal with all the shit. Much of what went wrong in the South was due to the fact that Reconstruction was a sustained period of urban violence and warfare and that for well after Reconstruction the only true public order in the region was carried out by armed bands of citizens because Southern governments could carry out no public function but the collection of taxes to pay their war debts, which they of course were required to pay back in full.