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Originally Posted by ovcatto
"What if America had racially integrated public schools in 1867?"
We'd be hundred years further along the scale of progress than we are now.
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Or what is sometimes referred to as the "redneck revolt" within the occupied states might have persisted in the form of a campaign of attrition.
Odious as it seems by today's standards, Jim Crow represented a stop-gap measure designed to temper the hostility of a time in which both sides had suffered extensively, and the entire economic and social structure had to be re-oriented. The Southern states were readmiitted to the union and the "Reconstruction Republican junta" lost its domination of the parliamentary process within twenty years.