[4CJ]

Regardless, blaming it all on the Yankees, while typical, is sheer nonsense.

If memory serves, the Republicans in power instituted military governments in the South, and forced them to rewrite their constitutions, and then approved of their new governments filled with carpetbaggers. Loyal Confederates, with few exceptions, were not allowed to hold public office.

[Non-Sequitur]

If memory serves, the Republicans in power instituted military governments in the South, and forced them to rewrite their constitutions, and then approved of their new governments filled with carpetbaggers. Loyal Confederates, with few exceptions, were not allowed to hold public office.

Check you selective memory again, 4CJ. The Black Codes were implemented before Reconstruction and the Jim Crow laws were enacted by the unreconstructed rebs after reconstruction ended. Sort of a 'thanks for your service, not get back in your place' smack in the head for all those black former confederate soldier you claim existed, huh?