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Originally Posted by longsuffering
On come on - both of you - with the "the South would have abolished it eventually" argument. In the theory perhaps, but in practice? Blacks were systematically discriminated against in the South for the next 100 years. Segregation was a fact of life. Hell, Alabama had to be forced to admit Blacks in their schools less than 50 years ago!
Don't pretend South was so enlightened.
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Yeah, you could say the same thing about the north.
How many blacks struggled for YEARS to be accepted by the general population after the civil war ended?