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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (358840)	11/16/2007 12:20:26 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) of 1577188

"Reconstruction.....do you think the south would have reacted so strongly to it if slavery was still legal.?" If slavery hadn't of been outlawed under Lincoln, it probably wouldn't have lasted past the turn of the century. It was only marginally economic by the time of the war and was slowly being abandoned. The social dynamics would have been interesting, though. There was a huge gap between the wealthy and the middle class in the South. And most Southerners weren't even middle class. The Radical Republicans tried to break up the power structure in the South, but those attempts were fought and only helped cement their position. Then when taxes were raised to pay for the social programs the Radical Republicans wanted like public schools and the railroads many of the small farmers were driven off their land and had to become sharecroppers. Which meant the whole pre-war social structure was re-enforced even more. So their attempts to re-engineer the South backfired in a spectacular manner. Net result was the South stayed poor until well into the 1950s. That might have been different without the attempts at social engineering.

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