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maybe reconstruction would've worked if it weren't for ex-confederate suffrage.
Reconstruction was tough enough to accomplish without adding more daggers...
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Yeah, that would have worked
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Jeff Davis was effectively the only person "barred" from Federal office, not that it mattered. IIRC Alexander Stephens, CSA Vice-President, went back to the same seat in Congress that he had occupied before the unpleasantness."When all else fails, a pigheaded refusal to look facts in the face will see us through." -- General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay MelchettComment
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Are you daft? Okay, let's make it easy for you. If the voters who put the Reconstruction government are too scared to go vote, then what happens to the governments? They get replaced by the intimidators.Originally posted by Albert Speer
voter intimidation wouldn't have worked if the State gov'ts were dominated by Blacks and the confeds had no way of getting back into power.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Chegitz:
2 things... all the intimidators would be disenfranchised and not be able to vote in their people... secondly, the success of intimidation was due to the gov't turning a blind eye to it or even supporting it. The initial black gov'ts of the South immediately after the war would have tried everything possible to stop intimidation but even if it continued to go on, it wouldn't have harmed the black gov't as very few whites would have been able to vote."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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Albert: There was never a "black" post war government in any of the southern states. Not even in South Carolina where blacks made up a majority of the population. There were more blacks participating then ever before and the lives of the majority of blacks had never been better but at all times whites continued to make up the bulk of the governming class. Of course during reconstruction many of these white politicians came from the north and that pissed the southerners off to no end.
They called them carpet baggers & scally wags and one of the first goals of the post reconstruction state governments was to chase those guys out of office (and often out of the south).Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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not allOriginally posted by Albert Speer
Chegitz:
2 things... all the intimidators would be disenfranchised and not be able to vote in their people.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Scallawags (scallywags) were Southerners who cooperated with the Union occupation.Originally posted by Oerdin
They called them carpet baggers & scally wagsChristianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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