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To: RobbyS
The WASPs saw the Irish as the underclass. In the South, the house servants were black. In the North, Irish.

For the Northern WASPs, blacks were below underclass. Prior to 1910 89% of all blacks still lived in the South. Northern towns didn't have many blacks living there until WW2, when many went to work in the factories up north. Until then, blacks weren't encouraged to move north.

51 posted on 10/15/2012 10:59:07 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Charlie Daniels - Payback Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwTJj_nosI)
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To: PapaBear3625

That was part of the 1877 Compromise. In return for the restoration of white democracy, the South agreed to sit on the black population. They were able to move north in only small numbers because the jobs they could handle were being filled by European immigants. The Cotton industry continue to dominate the Southern economy, but the old land-owning class had been broken by the war. The lost their slaves, but equally bad, they had lost their accumulated wealth and their best and brightest had been killed or maimed in the war. The English had found new markets elsewhere, and so the return on cotton was never again as great. No second act for the Southerns who had created and dominated the ante-bellum USA.


56 posted on 10/15/2012 11:29:48 AM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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