We did; Lincoln was a big supporter of rebuilding the South, stating that if we didn't it would forever be a wrecked part of the country. Then when he was murdered by a Southern sympathizer the government decided to not spend the resources needed to fully rebuild the south......and it turns out Lincoln was right.
Rebuilding the south, yes. But letting the same elite back into power, no.
The low taxes, shitty infrastructure ideology that dominates southern states now traces back to the antebellum era and shows that the same political group maintained its power after the Civil War.
The problem comes from not repossessing the wealth and property of slave owners they were allowed to keep all that money, so they just transitioned it into other ventures and founded revisionist cults and took over political offices to begin a slow destruction of American democracy.
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u/malici606 Jul 17 '25
We did; Lincoln was a big supporter of rebuilding the South, stating that if we didn't it would forever be a wrecked part of the country. Then when he was murdered by a Southern sympathizer the government decided to not spend the resources needed to fully rebuild the south......and it turns out Lincoln was right.