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Originally Posted by Atreides88
I beg to differ. The South is still feeling the effects of Reconstruction. Reconstruction did more to harm the South than the war did. How do you suppose that the South profited from Reconstruction?
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I don't think they did from the process itself, but one could argue that they "won" by getting the military to withdraw and the government to essentially leave them alone for the next 80 years.
Of course, Reconstruction was just about the worst possible outcome of the Civil War for the South (though I'm reading a book of "what-if" essays that includes an even worse scenario had Andrew Johnson been assassinated with Lincoln as planned and Radical Republicans been even more in-charge then they already were).
Really it all goes back to that stain on humanity I mentioned earlier.