The funny thing is that according to the reparations folks, the war on poverty/great society doesn’t count because whites were targeted for assistance as well ...
They also forget that the profits of the slave plantations were consumed by the war, and often the slave owners and their sons as well. In 1860, Mississippi was one of the richest states in the Union, with many millionaires. By 1970, New York state alone had more wealth than the entire former confederacy.