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Question about Jim Crow laws from a Yankee.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:11 pm
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:11 pm
I read an article that claimed that Jim Crow laws were introduced at the tail end of the 1800’s because poor whites and the newly freed slaves were becoming too friendly and forming a populist political block that frightened the economic elite. Is this true?
If white southerners hated free blacks one would expect Jim Crow laws to be enacted immediately after the civil war instead of 20 years later when William Jennings Bryan was gaining power.
What are the opinions of southerners on this topic?
If white southerners hated free blacks one would expect Jim Crow laws to be enacted immediately after the civil war instead of 20 years later when William Jennings Bryan was gaining power.
What are the opinions of southerners on this topic?
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Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:13 pm to Anonforthis
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If white southerners hated free blacks one would expect Jim Crow laws to be enacted immediately after the civil war instead of 20 years later when William Jennings Bryan was gaining power.
You might not have needed laws if the first 20 years were easy enough to maintain status quo.
That said, follow the money is a true enough statement.
This post was edited on 7/11/26 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:13 pm to Anonforthis
quote:
I read an article that claimed that Jim Crow laws were introduced at the tail end of the 1800’s because poor whites and the newly freed slaves were becoming too friendly and forming a populist political block that frightened the economic elite. Is this true?
Probably so.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:19 pm to OysterPoBoy
I would imagine that poor whites (the majority of the population) had more in common with poor blacks than rich white. The poor were all farmers. They lived next to each other, met with each other, ate with each other. Obviously the southern aristocracy could not abide with that so Jim Crow laws were enacted to divide and conquer.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:22 pm to Anonforthis
When I drive through the old neighborhoods that were segregated I notice all the roads are wide enough to drive like 8 cars on but as a person of no color I’ve always experienced tiny little roads that you could barely drive 2 cars on at the same time.
Separate but equal? Yeah right. It’s sad how people of no color have always been oppressed
Separate but equal? Yeah right. It’s sad how people of no color have always been oppressed
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:23 pm to el Gaucho
You are clearly being held back
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:26 pm to fightin tigers
It’s sad how many sundown towns still exist where people of no color aren’t safe to go at night and sometimes even during the day
Did y’all know there used to be a white Wall Street?
Did y’all know there used to be a white Wall Street?
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:26 pm to el Gaucho
If not the Boomers, it was the segregationists. Can run but not hide from the generational haunt.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:28 pm to fightin tigers
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That said, follow the money is a true enough statement.
The business community didn't like Jim Crow laws. It was a burdensome regulation. In Plessy v Ferguson, Plessy was in cahoots with the railroad company.
It took 30 years to lock it in because a lot of white Southerners wanted to leave the past behind. You essentially needed the bad guys to get their hands on power and then implement a fraudulent electoral system.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:29 pm to Anonforthis
There was a populist guy in GA -- Tom Watson? -- at the same time as Bryan in the 1890s who tried to set up a political movement including both whites and blacks. When that failed he switched to being a conventional southern segregationist.
I believe he was later elected guv, and also figured somehow in the Leo Frank case
I believe he was later elected guv, and also figured somehow in the Leo Frank case
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:30 pm to el Gaucho
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Did y’all know there used to be a white Wall Street?
sometimes, you hit the mark
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:31 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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It took 30 years to lock it in because a lot of white Southerners wanted to leave the past behind.
Care to explain the statues that started popping up during this period? Building memorials to the past is a particularly peculiar way to leave it behind.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:33 pm to MoarKilometers
You see how few people it takes to get a statue down. It probably took the will of even fewer to get one up.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:34 pm to Kafka
Thank you,
What is the consensus opinion among southerners concerning why Jim Crow laws were enacted and who was lobbying for them?
What is the consensus opinion among southerners concerning why Jim Crow laws were enacted and who was lobbying for them?
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:40 pm to el Gaucho
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It’s sad how many sundown towns still exist where people of no color aren’t safe to go at night and sometimes even during the day
Seems like if you have no color you should never go out in the day. Internal organs would prolly get cooked or some shite
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:40 pm to Anonforthis
That sounds like some commie unite the lower classes “scholarship.” Trust that the poor whites were not buddying up with the blacks. Lol what a fantasy.
Yall should ask your parents and grandparents what they remember about it before they die.
Yall should ask your parents and grandparents what they remember about it before they die.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:41 pm to Anonforthis
quote:partly political
What is the consensus opinion among southerners concerning why Jim Crow laws were enacted
MS may have had more blacks than whites at this point
In 1950 there were 500K blacks in Chicago. Half of them had come from MS. What would MS look like now if they had remained?
This post was edited on 7/11/26 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:45 pm to Anonforthis
I think you Yankees are more racist than Southerners.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:48 pm to Anonforthis
that I’m tired of talking about.
that I’m tired of people talking about it.
Not something I was involved with.
Not something my parents were involved with.
Not something my grandparents were involved with.
….
and generally I feel it’s brought up by people trying to shame Southerner’s today for something they had nothing to do with.
that I’m tired of people talking about it.
Not something I was involved with.
Not something my parents were involved with.
Not something my grandparents were involved with.
….
and generally I feel it’s brought up by people trying to shame Southerner’s today for something they had nothing to do with.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 12:50 pm to el Gaucho
quote:Translucent Lives Matter.
people of no color
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