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How ex-Confederates spread racist attitudes far and wide after the Civil War
NBC News / Comcast ^ | June 21, 2023 | By Curtis Bunn (D-NBC)

Posted on 06/21/2023 2:16:54 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A new study outlines how white people’s migration during and after the Civil War, from the Confederate South to the West, bolstered white supremacy and institutional racism in non-slave states, helping create the vast racial disparities that exist today nationwide.

Five researchers from separate colleges collaborated on the study, called “Confederate Diaspora,” to compile and study census data that tracked the migration to the West of white Americans, including 60,000 former plantation owners. The former Southerners took on local positions of authority, like police officers, clergy and politicians, giving them influence to create a post-Civil War culture that continued to oppress Black people even after slavery had ended.

This results in structural and systemic racism in almost every walk of life today — education, housing, jobs, health care and wealth, among other areas — that continues to hamper progress for Black people, according to a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research this month.

The former Confederates “continued to transmit norms to their children and non-Southern neighbors,” the researchers wrote, “shaping racial inequities in labor, housing, and policing.”

Researcher Patrick Testa, an assistant professor of economics at Tulane University in New Orleans, said the impact of the Confederates on other parts of the country was deep and long-lasting.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arizonaseceded; blacksupremacy; crackers; culturewar; curtisbunntheliar; democrats; demsarestillracist; everythingisracist; fabulistcurtisbunn; gentrification; karens; liberals; northernracism; racism; racisminillinois; racisminnewyork; racistcurtisbunn; samuelljackson
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To: TexasGator
My grandmother knew people that lived during reconstruction. Now that her generation is long gone, history no longer includes their narratives.

I've learned that a lot of "official" history is just bullsh*t. They cover up the truth because it makes the government look bad both in it's actions and it's corruption.

101 posted on 06/21/2023 4:16:43 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a bunch of rubbish....where do you even begin? Just democrats fanning the flames of anti white hatred for political gain.


102 posted on 06/21/2023 4:20:19 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: EliRoom8

“ Why post this?”

Good question.

It’s kind of scary how they’re trying to dehumanize a huge group of people.


103 posted on 06/21/2023 4:21:41 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: DiogenesLamp; E. Pluribus Unum; BroJoeK
The big government liberals who like high taxes have always lived in Boston, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, and so forth. Guess where these same liberals live today?

Terribly wrong there. A century ago the New England Yankees were penny pinching conservatives. Southerners and Westerners were poorer and were the big spending liberals.

Urban political machines became favorable towards federal spending when it was offered, but virtually all the urban machine politicians were Democrats, and in those days, Republicans could still get elected in Boston, New York, Chicago, and other cities.

104 posted on 06/21/2023 4:24:20 PM PDT by x
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To: DiogenesLamp
The North wanted to extend Free Labor into the Terrritories. The South wanted to extend Slavery into them. But the North was gaining more States and Population. The War was about the West. It was also WON by Westerners. The Eastern Generals were ineffective.
105 posted on 06/21/2023 4:27:16 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM!)
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To: HamiltonJay

Exactly. Must have been a lot of 2nd/3rd/4th generation Confederate Polish, German, Irish, Swedes, Greeks, Jews etc where I grew up on the south side of Chicago where I heard the N word a million times in my youth.


106 posted on 06/21/2023 4:27:54 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: no-to-illegals

“Confederacy didn’t vote for Abraham Lincoln..”

So our current oligarchy/Union government isn’t their fault.


107 posted on 06/21/2023 4:32:13 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Please contrast with how Teachers Union is doing the same thing to our kids in 2023.


108 posted on 06/21/2023 4:36:51 PM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h g)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...bolstered white supremacy and institutional racism...”

What else do you need to know about this dreck?


109 posted on 06/21/2023 4:36:56 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: cowboyusa

110 posted on 06/21/2023 4:40:41 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: dfwgator
"...Randy Newman..."

Alfred's grandson...changed his name for business reasons.


111 posted on 06/21/2023 4:45:37 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ifinnegan

I am soooo tired of hearing about injustices done to ethnic groups decades and centuries ago.


112 posted on 06/21/2023 4:49:31 PM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: DiogenesLamp

Were 1960s labor unions Democrat campaign funders?

Are 2020s labor unions Democrat campaign funders/


113 posted on 06/21/2023 4:54:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: cowboyusa


114 posted on 06/21/2023 4:59:44 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Plenty o word salad like southern whites and KKK, but very light on DEMOCRATS. Cause soy boy wants to keep the Tulane job.


115 posted on 06/21/2023 5:00:13 PM PDT by Swanks
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To: CFW

“Are the democrats still fighting that war?”

They aren’t democrats...they are communists.


116 posted on 06/21/2023 5:02:43 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: HamiltonJay

According to Thomas Sowell, blacks who assimilated into the dominate American culture lived in northern white neighborhoods and were accepted by their white neighbors. Their children attended white schools and did just as well as the white kids. Those black folk were just as appalled by the uncouth, redneck-assimilated blacks who migrated north and proceeded to destroy neighborhoods and entire cities.


117 posted on 06/21/2023 5:05:03 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Luke21
"When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder I can think at all
And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall..."

118 posted on 06/21/2023 5:12:17 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ConservativeInPA
Father from south but me born yankee. However, you and me...


119 posted on 06/21/2023 5:17:30 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: FLT-bird

“The Northern states had the “Black Codes” on the books in their states which the Jim Crow laws were modelled on.”

I have a house deed from the 1940’s in a suburb of Chicago belonging to long since deceased ancestors. Has a no negro covenant in it.


120 posted on 06/21/2023 5:24:05 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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