[semimojo]

The blacks were not only a minority of the population, they were a poor minority. How do you see them having power at this point in history?

I wouldn't expect them to have power, and the Confederate nostalgists were going to be sure to drive that point home.

It was also a message to the North that you can make all the laws you want but it isn't changing much on the ground here.

Singling out the South is an attempt to distract from the fact that this was the norm throughout the entire country.

You're the one who's studied this but I'm not aware of a lot of Confederate monuments in the Union states.

[DiogenesLamp]

It was also a message to the North that you can make all the laws you want but it isn't changing much on the ground here.

More like "You can kill our people and burn our homes, and force us to obey you by the strength of your arms and bayonets, but we will defy you where and when we can."

Otherwise known as "Irish Democracy."

You're the one who's studied this but I'm not aware of a lot of Confederate monuments in the Union states.

The point in contention to which you are replying is not about confederate monuments, but is instead about how black people were treated in the North.

And the answer to that is "often worse."