It's called catharsis. People got a lot of their animosity out of their system. And when one side is left ruined by the war, it got harder for the other to hate them. I think you could even say something like that about our feelings for the defeated in both world wars, whether they deserved it or not. Still, it wasn't exactly a love fest after the Civil War.
The only real vitriol was about a dozen radical republicans and newspaper editors and occupation governors
The country was more local back then. People were more preoccupied with what was going on locally than with what was happening at the other end of the country. But I'm pretty sure there was a reservoir of hatred left over in those who fought the war. Look up the "Good Old Rebel" song or the phrase "Wave the Bloody Shirt." What old men got up to fifty years later at reunions didn't necessarily reflect their feelings about each other when they were in the prime of life.
Folks know I’m a Mississippi native who owns car washes in middle Tennessee with deep southern roots back to Rolfe and Pochahontas.
Dude, we know things about you that you are afraid to tell your wives. Look up "oversharing."
Damn X
I’m almost feeling love of wood in that post.
I’m going to listen to one hour of Gil Scot Heron and the Last Poets on my iPad in the spirit of things
I’m out back with my horses and pit style bulldogs and Rotts
And a fire pit
Everyone is asleep
I’m listening to Curtis Mayfield.....this all got started over Aretha and greasy sound from down US 31 about one hundred miles....I’m a half mile from 31
Marvin Gay just doesn’t do it...too pop....Smokey Robinson mo betta
Wilson Picket or Otis or Percy
Stax Malaco or Muscle Shoals
Black music use to be so good
Now black music sucks and white imitators
It’s just compressed vocals warbling
Anyhow hugs from the mid south
We should go to Mississippi together that’s the real South....middle tennessee has never quite up to it honestly.......the Delta is the starting point
If you see hanging moss on trees you’re in the South no denying
We’d be like a team...places you’d need me and where I’d need you
I’m up for it..
Maybe you’re still in school or writing somenthing....
Let’s see the Title “Wardaddy too me to Mississippi and I feared a klan meeting but instead he took me to Tunica”
“The country was more local back then. People were more preoccupied with what was going on locally than with what was happening at the other end of the country”
Same thing regarding the government. Somewhere long ago in on of my books on the war I read that prior to the war the greatest impact the Federal Government had on people’s daily lives was if they received mail.