Ever hear of the black codes? They were worse than the Jim Crow laws of the South, but used in the North. Slavery would have ended in the 1870-1880's due to economic reasons. I get tired of Yankee hoiler-than-thou attitude when they are no better. Go to Boston or LA and tell me about their attitudes on race.
For every pre-rebellion black code you can show me in the North, there was one as bad or worse in place in the south.
Slavery would have ended in the 1870-1880's due to economic reasons.
Complete and utter nonsense. Absent any external influence slavery could have easily lasted into the 20th century.
Point of fact, I didn't say anything about race relations in contemporary American, and I never have. I don't believe the modern south is any more racist than the modern north. In fact, I think it is quite likely there is less racism in many parts of the south than in the north. But, in any case, you don't know what you are talking about. The black codes in the north were nothing compared to the black codes developed after reconstruction faltered, and they eventually led to the Jim Crow laws. Please don't play that moral equivelancy game that things were just as bad in the north as in the south because it is total bull. We can go down a litanny of what the Jim crow laws did to black people and you can't find anything even close in the north.