[billbears]

Unlike the union President's ideal which was? Never mind the fact that other races were accepted down here, most evident Native Americans and Jewish peoples. How did Grant and Sherman feel about Jews again? Not to mention their 'fondness' of anyone that wasn't white. If the union had its way, the whole of their nation would have been lily white within a generation.

[Non-Sequitur]

Never mind the fact that other races were accepted down here, most evident Native Americans and Jewish peoples.

So expelling the black population is OK because the south was kind to Native Americans and Jews? Oh wait, there was that little matter of the 'Trail of Tears', wasn't there. Oh well, one out of three ain't bad.