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Current Events » in reply to re: The South lost what? Sorry, but gained for the better is more like it.

You contradict yourself. Twice.
Mary Anne — (archived)

Servitude: * By whom, MA, the North?

Do a search on "Jim Crow Laws". Do a search on "segregation". Pay special attention to the role of Woodrow Wilson, a Virginian, to the resegregation of the Federal Civil Service at the beginning of the 20th century. Do a search on "Ku Klux Klan". Do a search on "sharecropping". The last is a shared racial phenomenon, but poor whites could own land. Poor blacks had a much more difficult time doing that because of all the hoops they had to jump through. Cf. "Jim Crow Laws".

* Sorry, you lost me there. No Black and White water fountains in Minnesota where I was raised, ever.

Do a search on "de facto segregation". This is the fine art of maintaining separate neighborhoods by force of social pressure and "gentlemen's agreements". I grew up in upstate New York, and believe me, it existed and was pervasive. You didn't need a Whites Only waterfountain when blacks were never close enough to use it.

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