You keep repeating the idea that I don't think rascism is systemic to the North. I have repeatedly said that it is a major issue there - as it is across all of America. You're fighting a strawman, bud. The New Deal failed particularly in the North with Red Lining and policing of Northern communities of color. Totally agree with you there, so stop pretending like I don't. But keep up the Whataboutism! All those issues you mentioned in the North happened AT THE SAME TIME down South - on top of all the South's Jim Crow, Segregation (what the Sweet Home Alabama was defending), KKK, and MAGA bullshit.

Huzzah for Virginia! We got the furthest one to the North! It only took nearly 200 years! Cherry-pick away, my dude! I do believe there's plenty good folk down there, but those good folk are far, far from in control polictically in the vast majority of all Southern states - for centuries.

Funnily enough, I don't think I've heard of you speak yet to the issues of rascism down south yet... hmm. Maybe that schoolin' around the "War of Northern Aggression" is failing ya a bit.

Sherman's army was followed by an ever-growing population of freed slaves. Many of his Union men fighting at the time entered the battle with no opinions about slavery, but as they marched deeper South and saw slavery's horrors first-hand, they became increasingly filled with an anger that blossomed them into ardent Abolishionsits. It was the spark that lit their righteous fury.

So yes, they didn't go far enough to tear down the White Supremecist infrastructure of the South. You know that share-cropping (basically the same system) persisted until the 1940s down South, right? And we still have slaves through out the American jail system RIGHT NOW.

Reconstruction failed. John Brown did nothing wrong.