[paladin1_dcs]

And yet instead of “putting it behind them”, the North continued for decades to punish the South for daring to disagree with them.

I believe that there may have been some who were for putting the war behind them, but the vast majority of the Yankees were for gloating over their victory and exploiting the economic spoils that they found in the South.

[Non-Sequitur]

And yet instead of “putting it behind them”, the North continued for decades to punish the South for daring to disagree with them.

Surely after LBJ, Carter, Clinton, and two Bush's the South has gotten it's revenge on the rest of us?

[Ditto]

And yet instead of “putting it behind them”, the North continued for decades to punish the South for daring to disagree with them.

Decades? Reconstruction lasted 12 years, and the worst part of reconstruction and the only thing that made it last more than a year or so was brought upon the south not by the North, but by southerners in the Klan and other organizations who used the same tactics of terror, murder and intimidation as we see in Iraq and Afghanistan now.

To say reconstruction was wrong is saying that terrorists should be rewarded.