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Reconstruction effects on the South
Posted on 7/10/15 at 6:48 pm
Posted on 7/10/15 at 6:48 pm
In your opinion, when did the South quit feeling the negative effects of Reconstruction? Also, do you feel the treatment was fair or unfair?
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 7:29 pm to BallstotheWesleyWall
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In your opinion, when did the South quit feeling the negative effects of Reconstruction?
TBD
Posted on 7/10/15 at 7:31 pm to BallstotheWesleyWall
Still ongoing. IMO, the Civil War didn't actually end until the Civil Rights Act was passed and integration had occurred and settled in. Just because the fighting stopped didn't mean the bad blood did. The so-called Reconstruction actually had multiple stages: the post-fighting reconstruction (1867-1900), the ealry twentieth century reconstruction during which Jim Crowe reigned (1900-1964), and the post-Civil Rights Act Reconstruction (1964-present) during which the South has come to terms with finally leaving the Civil War era politics and practices in the past.
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 8:54 pm to BallstotheWesleyWall
Texas did after Spindletop.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 9:06 pm to BallstotheWesleyWall
In your opinion, when did the South quit feeling the negative effects of Reconstruction? Also, do you feel the treatment was fair or unfair?
Some are still being felt go try and get a book published as a Southern author...
Some are still being felt go try and get a book published as a Southern author...
Posted on 7/10/15 at 9:10 pm to BallstotheWesleyWall
I still feel like we're reconstructing when I get on reddit. Them bitches hate the south. "I'm a liberal and have liberal ideals until you disagree with me hurrrrrrr"
Posted on 7/10/15 at 9:57 pm to BarberitosDawg
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Some are still being felt go try and get a book published as a Southern author...
Tell me more.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 10:11 pm to LewDawg
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I still feel like we're reconstructing when I get on reddit. Them bitches hate the south. "I'm a liberal and have liberal ideals until you disagree with me hurrrrrrr"
Thanks for the dazzling synopsis
Posted on 7/10/15 at 10:46 pm to Mullet Flap
You're welcome, frick-nugget!
Posted on 7/12/15 at 12:09 pm to BallstotheWesleyWall
Well, the 1970s is probably the first decade where I don't immediately think of racism.
Posted on 7/12/15 at 12:16 pm to BallstotheWesleyWall
The biggest effect that no one talks about is the banking system, which is just now being put back together. It wasn't until the early 2000s that the South started getting National (as opposed to State Charter) banks.
The issue is that the NE had all of the deposits. But they couldn't make loans down here in the South. So, they made loans to NE corporations, which were able to purchase our natural resources (think all the big timber companies that own most of the land down here). So we were essentially being poached for 150 years. And we still are. Look at the biggest businesses in the South and most of them are owned by out-of-state corporations.
It wasn't until just recently that true Southern companies have evoloved, such as Tyson Foods, AutoZone, Southern Company, Walmart, FedEx, Home Depot. These are relatively new, and they are a product of the emergence of the corporate junk bond market of the 1980s.
I think it will take Crowd Funding and the fact that banks like Wells Fargo now have branches in the South where they can take CA and Ny deposits and loan them out here -- things that we didn't have until just recently -- for the South to emerge economically from the Civil War.
The issue is that the NE had all of the deposits. But they couldn't make loans down here in the South. So, they made loans to NE corporations, which were able to purchase our natural resources (think all the big timber companies that own most of the land down here). So we were essentially being poached for 150 years. And we still are. Look at the biggest businesses in the South and most of them are owned by out-of-state corporations.
It wasn't until just recently that true Southern companies have evoloved, such as Tyson Foods, AutoZone, Southern Company, Walmart, FedEx, Home Depot. These are relatively new, and they are a product of the emergence of the corporate junk bond market of the 1980s.
I think it will take Crowd Funding and the fact that banks like Wells Fargo now have branches in the South where they can take CA and Ny deposits and loan them out here -- things that we didn't have until just recently -- for the South to emerge economically from the Civil War.
Posted on 7/12/15 at 12:19 pm to Lordofwrath88
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the 1970s is probably the first decade where I don't immediately think of racism.
Well, I remember the very difficult racial tensions in South Boston in the 70's over busing. Race has always been an issue in this country. Racial tension takes place well beyond the South and some of the most militant has been in Boston, Chicago and LA. I actually think people tend to get along better in the South despite some rednecks and some crazy black folks.
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Posted on 7/12/15 at 2:05 pm to Pavoloco83
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Racial tension takes place well beyond the South
Groundbreaking stuff right here.
Posted on 7/12/15 at 5:29 pm to Pavoloco83
Maybe Reconstruction officially ended with the awarding of the 1996 Olympics to Atlanta. Congratulations South, we rendered you a third world country and burned the biggest city to ash.... look how far you've come, have biggest party on earth, suck a d Athens, Greece.
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