re: Was there still civil war resentment in the early 1900s

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Yep. Sorest losers in American history.

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That moniker is truly being put to the test today which is really saying something.

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the Daughters of the Confederacy were huge around that time and very politically active in spreading positive propaganda about the Confederates, trying to romanticize the confederacy as some noble cause. And they largely succeeded.

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I’ve always said the politicians and big money plantation owners/businessmen who organized the war and funded it should be looked upon poorly. However, the citizens who fought the war should be honored as they were simply men who believed they were protecting their home and their state. State allegiance then was bigger than allegiance to the country.

Same with Nazi Germany. The vast majority of soldiers believed they were fighting to protect Germany from communists. Only the upper crust officers and politicians knew what was really occurring.

To hell with you for even making that comparison.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

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republicans couldn’t get elected in the south until the mid 1980s because of Lincoln being a republican

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Eisenhower and Nixon did quite well in the South.

Im simply aware of factual electoral data.

Saw lots of bumper stickers with this message, when I lived in Mississippi in the 60's.



A neighbor's dad had the bumper sticker and had grenades in a storeroom. He was a Civil Defense guy, and a klansman. Also had a "When guns are outlawed..." bumper sticker. He was woke to all of that stuff back then.

I grew up in Wisconsin, played football at Minnesota, then attended State and got my second degree from Indiana. My mom (grew up on a 19th century family farm to 100% German mom/100% Norwegian dad) freaked when I told her I was going to State. She still had the Jim Crow/Confederate association with Mississippi (frankly I can see why now that I learned that side of history...my main reason for the move.) She still thought the KKK ran things down there in the mid-90s. My dad was adopted (1952 half German/half Austrian but no clue beyond that because the adoption agency’s papers conveniently burnt to the ground shortly after.) On that grandma’s side my great great great grandpa was a civil war union vet. They didn’t blink an eye when I told them I was going to State.

Point being that you have to lump populations of both sides into the discussion. In my family it’s the civil war soldier connection where they were indifferent (though I remember my grandpa telling me how when he was training with the 101st parachute unit during WWII they would force any non-whites into the roads if they were on the sidewalk) and then you had the other side which went from Norway to the farm just before the war and never had a real connection to anything related until my young 1st cousin got as it was called “jungle fever”.

The night I checked into short term housing I was meant fairly rudely. I don’t know if it wa the midnight check-in or because (as I was told later) it was a daughter of the Klan that I got a sour reception. Two months later I took my car in for a brake job and as the guy had trouble it was said quite loudly that the guy shouldn’t have taken a “yankee car”. I later learned it was about the rust and not me that the comment was made...like most times when I relayed why I was there the baw was super nice. Most of my best friendships in life were forged in my 2 years there. In the ironic twist whenever I drove home from Indiana I’d drive past a huge Stars & Bars flag outside the house of a retired Klan leader...yet no mention from my mom. Her ignorance on full display.

After college we moved to Florida and I spent 5 years trying to talk my Land of Lincoln wife into moving to Starkville. Thankfully we’ve agreed on a move to Nashville after my youngest kid is out of high school. That’s why I asked about what is considered “Yankee” because the upper Midwest is far more southern than those pricks on the east coast. That was one thing that broke the ice with my suite mates...we would laugh at the NY kid a few doors down almost everyday, the poor kid didn’t stand a chance with our suite’s chemistry.

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It seems like the South resisted cultural, industrial and educational change during and after Reconstruction.

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You should study the era more if you think this is the case.

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Hell yes there was. In a lot of ways more hatred for yankees than during the war as those carpet baggers screwed us all post war.

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My grandmother wasn't racist at all, but if you said someone was a Yankee, she would blow up and say, "He's not a Yankee, he's a damn Yankee."

I still consider Abe Lincoln to be one of the most callous, rash and cruel Presidents ever considering that he was more than perfectly content and fine to let half a million human beings die just to keep a ragtag band of states together and end something that was already well on its way to being ended by peaceful means.

All that blood is on his hands and he better have had a good answer when he met his maker the night of the play at the Ford theater.