[Gaffer]

Frankly, I am not about to endorse revised discussion of the Reconstruction Politics in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War loss by the South to transmogrify that to some mystical relevance of Democrats and Republicans of today.

[Sam Gamgee]

I recall the race riots in Chicago in the early 1900s. Does that make the North hypocrites? They fought a civil war for a class of people they wanted to keep in their place.