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The current War of Northern Aggression "discourse" has brought to mind the top 100 first place greatest mistake in US state craft: not letting Burnen' Sherman just march back and forth for a couple years or finishing hardcore full reconstruction.
Every degenerate tendency in US Con. politics has originated directly from the South's special position as a rebellious territory that was allowed to maintain it's cultural legitimacy, or second order effect from it. Imagine the conservatives we could have in this country if the wellspring of the tendency was John Adams and the federalists; rather than Rutherford and the lost causers.
Wrapping up the entire holographic southern cultural package with opposition to Washington eg. the North, eg the technocratic, rich part of the country has led to a situation where Technocratic Tech-billionaire Technologists are shackled to the cultural traditions of south, either Cavalier hedonistic indulgence papered over with cheap aristocratic pretension lacking any of the actual cultural roots that european aristocrats have; or hill people proud ignorance and shiftless rebellion against anyone who might have gotten any of that big city 'lernin.
You can watch these tendencies poison Republican politics live all the time; it's why even though the Democratic party is jam packed full of passionless ossified corporate aphorism chat bots, when republicans have all three wings of the government they STILL can't get anything done. There is a deep state problem, but it's not the 'unelected bureaucrats' in washington, it's the decaying corpses of Jefferson Davis and Johnny Reb clinging on to conservatism's ankles and dragging it down into the mud.
As a Southern borderer I deeply wish Reconstruction had actually been completed because of the sheer damage that the psychopathic slaver caste was allowed to unleash upon freedman, unionists and anyone not on-board with white supremacist terror and segregation that echoes to this day in our damaged societies, de facto segregation, extractive economies, major brain drain and lack of local democratic rights. Christianity in the south still radically differs from elsewhere in the country due to abolitionist preachers being murdered or forced to flee for their lives and a lobotomized form promoted to enforce a slave society. They just straight up overthrew local governments when they lost elections, killed or intimidated the winners, and installed KKK, Red Hat & co approved office holders in their place. The feds merely enforcing laws against murder would've made for a significant improvement.
It's a quite baffling case where after winning the war, the majority that supported the winners gets taken out of power in a dirty war by the loser minority, who are given free reign to terrorize the loyalists, erase and rewrite southern history, implement Jim Crow, then promote neoconfederate propaganda in the public schools, public worker and law enforcement academies, etc to the present. My area was actually a heavy unionist area of the rural south but you'd never know from how hard that was put down the memory hole by neoconfederates.
It’s because the loser minority knew the truth and the black community is ungovernable. There is zero evidence any where in the world that 100% sub Saharan African descent can create first world countries. 100% African descent has failed countries, 85% african descent South Africa has failed, the south still has worse SES outcomes in those communities, the northern US has issues in those communities.
Sure there are members who can rise up like a Clarence Thomas but for every Clarence Thomas there are 30 that can’t do anything in an advanced society.
No matter what perfect policy of reconstruction we could have done nothing would have changed in the south because the populations group level average IQ is too low to function in an advanced society.
I honestly am getting annoyed with leftist who can see what looks extremely well statistically supported to me.
If a group fails in every environment it’s probably because the group has issues. If a group succeeds in a lot of environments it’s probably something about the group.
Edit: doesn’t seem like fair modding to me at all as there are multiple un-modded posts that are low effort calling for white genocide yet anything touching on black community weaknesses being the cause of southern dysfunction you are expected to write a full treatise (despite Im assuming most posters are aware of the bell curve and US criminal statistics).
But if you make all the low IQ people slaves again, most of them would be white men.
Is that really what white supremacy is arguing for these days?
Most sharecroppers were white.
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