In this case, actually, yes. I’m not happy about what it took to knock some sense into us—a war, twelve years of crippling Reconstruction, and then everything that happened in the 1950s and beyond. Maybe, given time, Jim Crow would’ve ended on its own. I’d like to think so.
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Wow, commendable! You are the very first Southerner I have ever heard say that (and I lived in the South for eight years). I wish the rest of the country hadn’t had to invest all the lives, time, money and effort in straightening the South out either, but to the extent things are in order down there now, I’m glad it has done some good. Thanks for your comment.