@Deglassco thank you! As a southerner I always knew I was being lied to, but it’s useful to actually have a grasp on just how badly.

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@Deglassco I mean, any history provided in public schools is going to be an oversimplification convenient to those in power, and revisionism is pushing back right now, but you grow up surrounded by reminders of the ACW, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement, and you go “what happened has to be more complex than evil carpetbaggers and a very very cleaned up version of sharecropping.”

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