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One of the effects of the defeat of the South and the subsequent Reconstruction was the fall of the Southern plantation and merchant class from power. The post-Reconstruction Southern states reacted with extreme bitterness against their defeat and the subsequent long economic depression of the region that lingered on until World War II. Post-reconstruction Southern politics became more democratic (at least for whites), as the result of the dilution of planter and merchant dominance.

In this atmosphere, scapegoating reared its head. Populists such as Tom Watson in Georgia switched from themes of economic reforms similar to those championed by Northern and Western Populists to viciousness toward the former slaves. Strict segregation laws became the norm after 1890, and blacks were effectively disenfranchised in the same period. Free lance vigilantes and, after 1920, the revived Ku Klux Klan engaged in a reign of terror against blacks, with several thousand lynchings between 1880 and 1930 (although some lynchings took places in such un-Southern locales as Wilmington, Delaware and Duluth, Minnesota). In some upland areas of the South (and the Midwest and West), there was ethnic cleansing of blacks from small towns where they had settled after the Civil War. The movie, Rosewood, documents one of the most extreme examples of expelling African-Americans in Florida during the 1920s.

Anti-Semitism also reared its ugly head in the South via the same Populist movement that imposed segregation and maltreatment of black Southerners. Tom Watson, Theodore Bilbo, and others recycled the anti-Semitic arguments of Nordic supremacists. The Klan of the 1920s and the 1960s repeated much of the same rhetoric against Jews as would have been found in Nazi propaganda. The lynching of Leo Frank in Georgia is evidence of the anti-Semitic animosity in the South in the Populist era.

Contrary to the opinions of many Northerners, as well as the romanticism of many Southerners, racism and anti-Semitism were far stronger and widespread in the post-Reconstruction South than had been the case in the antebellum era.

Anti-Semitism also reared its ugly head in the South via the same Populist movement that imposed segregation and maltreatment of black Southerners. Tom Watson, Theodore Bilbo, and others recycled the anti-Semitic arguments of Nordic supremacists. The Klan of the 1920s and the 1960s repeated much of the same rhetoric against Jews as would have been found in Nazi propaganda. The lynching of Leo Frank in Georgia is evidence of the anti-Semitic animosity in the South in the Populist era.

Actually, the so called "Black Codes" were modeled by Reconstruction (yankee)legislators to model the laws of their own New England and Indiana/Ohio codes.

Nathan Bedford Forrest disbanded the original Klan in 1874. The Klan of the 1920's and '60s has it's origins in Indiana, not the South.

The South has always provided a safe-haven for Judiasm. The largest Jewish military cemetary outside Israel is in Richmond.

Shalom

Anti-Semitism also reared its ugly head in the South via the same Populist movement that imposed segregation and maltreatment of black Southerners. Tom Watson, Theodore Bilbo, and others recycled the anti-Semitic arguments of Nordic supremacists. The Klan of the 1920s and the 1960s repeated much of the same rhetoric against Jews as would have been found in Nazi propaganda. The lynching of Leo Frank in Georgia is evidence of the anti-Semitic animosity in the South in the Populist era.

Actually, the so called "Black Codes" were modeled by Reconstruction (yankee)legislators to model the laws of their own New England and Indiana/Ohio codes.

Nathan Bedford Forrest disbanded the original Klan in 1874. The Klan of the 1920's and '60s has it's origins in Indiana, not the South.

The South has always provided a safe-haven for Judiasm. The largest Jewish military cemetary outside Israel is in Richmond.

Shalom