Was Reconstruction more 3T than 1T?

[JasonBlack]

(10-13-2022, 05:08 PM)David Horn Wrote: That's a bit of a selective reading of the times.  The real issue with Reconstruction: it never really happened.

Yeah, I remember going over it in history class and asking "uh...what reconstruction? It doesn't seem like a whole lot happened", and the teacher simply responded "exactly".

Quote:The South degraded into a neo-antebellum version of itself, with former slaves still under the thumb of the upper-classs whites, and lower-class whites only a small step above them.  Is it any surprise that the North decided to say "screw this" and did just what you noted.  

But it was only the nominal victors who turned their backs on the mess.  The south never quit and never forgot.  We're still dealing with that to this day, and it's getting really ugly again!

You could argue it kinda-sorta happened between the late 1T/early 2T of the current saeculum, but even then....only kinda-sorta. The modern south is essentially "anarchy with vestiges of aristocratic manners". Imo, this is still preferable to the degeneracy of the inner-cities (if we're talking about "The South" excluding large metropolitan areas) or the PC police/draconian covid lockdowns of the liberal coasts, but to call them "reconstructed" could be overstatement.