‘It was not the civil war that lead to “Jim Crow” laws it was the political environment post civil war.’
ah yes; had nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that blacks were considered ‘chattel property’ prior to the war, eh...?
What? I am talking politics not racial injustices. During Reconstruction carpet baggers helped a lot of black leaders to take political office, state wide and locally. Many whites could not even run for office at that time. Especially in local governments, there was as sense that blacks were using there new found political power to get a little pay back against whites. Black politicians had the backing of the Federal troops and the carpet baggers. History likes to jump from Blacks were elected to the Klan. But a lot happened in between. When the Federal troops left, whites began to run for office again and gradually took back control. Once whites took back control they began to pass laws that prevented blacks from taking political control again. Those were the beginning of the “Jim Crow” laws. As a side note some black politicians were actually popular and remained in political office for some time after Reconstruction.
The point is no longer Black and White, it is Red and Blue. The Blue urbanized globalists and Big Tech Carpet Baggers have regained power. Stand by for revenge against Red voters by the Blues.