I don't see any evidence in history that would be the case. America, North and South, was the land of opportunity for people with dreams and ambition. There was no welfare mentality and no such thing as a permanent underclass as we have today.
Many many people began with nothing and ended up very wealthy and successful back then. Think of people like Ben Franklin, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Andy Jackson and even Abraham Lincoln.
I haven’t responded to those who have posted responses on this topic for a few reasons, the main one being that I just don’t have the time and energy to rehash this yet again.
I have no idea how to shake the faith of those who have been taught that “the South started the Civil War to protect slavery.”
The North started the war to prevent the southern states from seceding peacefully, as was their right. The notion that the war was being fought to free the slaves caused a draft riot in New York City.
If you’d asked a southern soldier if he was fighting to protect slavery, he’d probably have thought for a moment, scratched, spit some tobacco and said, “Well, yes, that too, I suppose.”
The way the basic humanity of the southerners is denied is a damned shame.
When the northern army of occupation moved into the South after the war, the ladies of the northern officers complained that they could find no suitable household servants. Some southern ladies, hoping to help people they had known all their lives, recommended former slaves of their acquaintance.
Oh, no! Quoth the northern ladies. We wouldn’t have negroes around the house.
The black and white, comic-book caricature showing the North as heroic and the South as demonic haters of negroes is nothing more than garbage ginned up by leftards to serve their own cause.
And that’s all I have to say about that.