Posted on 12/02/2008 6:57:32 AM PST by prplhze2000
came across an article from an old issue of U.S. News & World Report commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Civil War. What was interesting was that it compared the treatment of the South for decades after the war's end to the millions of dollars and additional support given to Germany and other European countries through the Marshall plan and concluded the South's fate was a drag on the rest of the country as it remained the poorest section of America by far.....
U.S Treasury agents streamed through the South in 1865 grabbing cotton, land, anything that they claimed to have been the property of the Confederacy. They took cotton valued at $30 million. Behind them came hordes of carpetbaggers (With the Wall Street Journal's blessing I'm sure. They'll invent some economic theory to justify it while professing to hate the looters in Atlas Shrugged) from the North to drain away any Southern Capital they could lay hands on..."
The Southern steel industry, doing a booming business in 1900, was virtually stopped in its track, Southerners said, by a rate structure imposed by the North. The rates required payment of price differentials so sharp that it became cheaper for an industry in New Orleans to buy steel from Pittsburgh than from Birmingham. Not until World War II were changes made in this system."
Such policies created a region so poor and under-educated that FDR called the South the "nations number one economic problem" in 1938...
(Excerpt) Read more at kingfish1935.blogspot.com ...
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Old times there are not forgotten bump
Four of the last five presidents have been from the South. I’d say they’ve gotten their revenge for losing the rebellion many times over.
Welcome to the South rich yankees. We’ll take your money.
The South WILL rise again. hehehe
Indeed.
“Such policies created a region so poor and under-educated that FDR called the South the “nations number one economic problem” in 1938...”
This exact same thing is happening today. The liberals are trying to put us all into poverty so that they can have control over everything we do. Yea, FDR to the rescue. Look what he did to this country.
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South Postpones Rising For Yet Another Year
An oldie but a goodie.
Uh, Clinton and Carter were both scallywags we don't claim...and both of the Bush's are actually Maine carpetbaggers!
Call them what you want but both were born, raised, and governed in the South. They are Southerners by every defintion of the word. So are we even for Sherman's march yet?
Ping
One fact is left out. By the 1880s the democrat party had regained control over most of the old south and by 1900 they had near total control that lasted into the 70s and 80s. Most of the excesses that followed the end of the war were put down by the end of reconstruction. The urban southern areas such as Atlanta grew and flourished but the policies of the ruling party (democrat) purposely kept the rural areas poor because they were easier to control that way. The KKK and the southern democrat machine needed to make sure that the black population was controlled and that the concepts of white supremacy and the confederacy were kept alive in the minds of southern whites. The idea was to keep them poor, dumb and working to make the democrat ruling class richer.
Here is a great pair books on the subject;
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South
http://www.thepoliticallyincorrectguidetothesouth.com/
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War,
http://www.conservativebookclub.com/products/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c7288
Think you know the South and Southern history?
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South gives you the facts behind scores of revelations like these:
The first of the 13 colonies to formally legalize slavery? (Hint: it’s not in the South)
How Georgia banned slaves - and lawyers - in its founding charter
Why the South is more important to the American Founding than the North
Throw away those history textbooks: How the South,not the North,started -and won — the American Revolution
How Southerners led the way in drafting the Declaration of Independence,the U.S. Constitution,and the Bill of Rights
Why Northerners - not Southerners - wanted slaves to be counted as property instead of people in the Constitution
Peculiar fact about the wealthy slaveholder whose court cases helped legalize slavery in Virginia: he was black
How Virginia militiamen created the American Midwest
Why Northern states threatened secession long before the Confederacy - and why they considered it Constitutional
How the expansion of the U.S. across the continent from 1830-1850 - which gave us the term “Manifest Destiny” - was largely a Southern achievement
Lewis & Clark? Southerners,of course
The first two Jewish members of the U.S. Senate? Yep,you guessed it
How Southerners outnumbered Northerners almost four to one among the heroes of the Alamo
Why slavery,which spread across all thirteen colonies,was far crueler in the North than the South
How the Northern colonies grew rich on slave trading - and revived slavery in the South just before it collapsed
New York City’s largest industry in 1860? The outfitting of slave ships
The site of a mass grave for slaves who were literally worked to death? Hint: it’s not in the South
Why economics - not slavery - was the driving force behind the War Between the States
How Lincoln twice refused — or actually revoked — orders for emancipating slaves
How Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation left more than 800,000 slaves in bondage in states aligned with or occupied by the Union
Black heroes of the Confederacy - and other great Southern blacks you won’t hear about during Black History Month
How the more civilized Southern way of war contributed to its defeat - in contrast to the North’s brutal “total war” against civilians and property
How the Northern victory dealt a death blow to states’rights - leading eventually to today’s all-powerful federal government
Why “Reconstruction” is the most misnamed period in American history
Why segregation,which didn’t exist in the antebellum South,was a legacy of Northern-imposed “Reconstruction”
How virtually all of America’s highest-ranking World War II generals had Confederate roots
How Southerners won World War II in the Pacific theater
How the South was making movies when Hollywood was nowhere
Why race relations in today’s South are much better than in the North - or anywhere else in America
What Yankee reporters don’t understand about the South
Why faith and family come first in the South
Why the South is naturally conservative (and the North is naturally liberal)
Why limited government and low tax rates are a Southern tradition
Why Northerners - white and black — keep moving South
Statistics show Southerners are happier than people in other regions - Clint Johnson shows you why
It’s a fact: Southern women dominate beauty pageants,and Southern men dominate in sports
Why blacks have been moving back to the South in droves
How American jazz,blues,and rock ‘n’ roll (when it was still music) all came from the South
Why blacks hold more - and more powerful - political offices in the South than in the North
Why Southern industry is booming,while the North’s is going bust
The second war against the South — the campaign to erase memory and history - and how it serves liberal interests
Why Southerners are overrepresented in the military - and no,it’s not poverty
The best American literature? Southern,of course - and our high school and college reading lists confirm it
10 Things Southerners Don’t Understand About the North (#1: Why isn’t Ted Kennedy in prison?)
“....Very interesting article and it presents many unknown or forgotten facts....”
Unknown and forgotten by everyone, but Southerners with long family histories.
...and Yankees today wonder why some down here are still bitter....The South was kept in virtual serfdom for generations. That attitude is still alive and well, even among some FReepers.
THIS Yankee never heard that before ... and I am one of those that believes I was never told the truth about the (un)civil war.
“Why “Reconstruction” is the most misnamed period in American history”
That can’t be said often enough.
Not yet. May he burn in Hell
Good thing it's winter ... got more time to catch up on reading .. thank you for all the input.
>>So are we even for Sherman’s march yet?
Not even close! We can talk AFTER The South gets to burn down Philadelphia and all of Eastern Pennsylvania.
There is much talk these days about a Second War Between The States. Be aware that over a million were killed, wounded or maimed. Many more were displaced, starved and lost everything. That said, the clouds are gathering and the storm is near.
Can it be prevented? Sure. Will it be prevented? Doubtful. “Cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war.”
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