WW2 pales in comparison to the civil war, but I don’t remember the generation after the civil war generation running amock, tearing society apart, become godless, etc.
You must be a new Texan, since it’s obvious you never learned about Reconstruction. Look it up and be educated!
I suggest you read, Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans by T. R. Fehrenbach.
Nope, they were too busy, along with a bunch of smelly immigrants particularly from Germany, and Scandanavia, and to some extent Ireland, settling the Great Plains and inter-mountain west, along with Czechs in some places. A little later, Greeks, Italians, Russians and Poles took the places in the big cities those earlier immigrants had left. Lots of Chinese and Japanese also immigrated, mostly to the west coast. But the Chinese also built railroads from the west as Irishman built them from the east. Accross the praires it was said their was an Irishman buried under ever mile of track. In realty, there were more than that. The Chinese were working in rougher terrain, and so their were even more Chinese graves per mile.