09-27-2016, 09:24 AM
(09-26-2016, 03:06 AM)taramarie Wrote: I am unfamiliar with the aftermath of the civil war so I do not know how things were patched up after it.
There were a couple decades of "reconstruction", during which carpetbaggers from the north went south to lord it over southerners. Then southern whites regained power and we got the institutionalized racism that lasted from the late 19th century to 1960 or so. Basically there was no patching up, just continued disagreement with one side winning at a time.