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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
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Woodrow Wilson comes to mind.


61 posted on 06/21/2023 3:05:57 PM PDT by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NBC is really reaching on this. But then again they do on everything.


62 posted on 06/21/2023 3:06:15 PM PDT by fightin kentuckian
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I obviously did not click the link. But I wonder if NBC mentioned the Ku Klux Klan. AKA the paramilitary terrorist wing of the Democratic Party.


63 posted on 06/21/2023 3:08:13 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Blah blah blah


64 posted on 06/21/2023 3:08:40 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: JimRed
structural and systemic racism

Otherwise known as "affirmative action" and "diversity inclusion and equity".

65 posted on 06/21/2023 3:09:46 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer


66 posted on 06/21/2023 3:10:36 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Sun Tzu: "An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes." )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A passage I came across today:

http://slavenorth.com/pennrace.htm

“But in addition to economics and politics, much of the rise in race prejudice in Pennsylvania was tied to the influx of blacks from the South and to the rising crime rates that resulted from it.”

“In colonial times, blacks seemed not disproportionate among the criminals of Pennsylvania, or at least they were not seriously complained of. As early as 1806, however, Friends lamented the deterioration in character of the black population of Philadelphia and laid the blame for it on the constant influx of runaways.”

“On they come with all the accumulated depravity which they have been long accustomed to; such as lying, pilfering, stealing, swearing, deceit, and a thousand meaner vices, the fruits of slavery,” a writer of 1805 complained, in reference to runaways from the South. “When they arrive, they almost generally abandon themselves to all manner of debauchery and dissipation, to the great annoyance of many of our citizens.”

“Joel Swayne, a farmer in East Marlborough Township, not far from the Mason-Dixon Line in Chester County, wrote to state Sen. William Jackson in 1843 about this problem. “It is obvious that an increasing prejudice is abroad against those of a dark skin,” he wrote. “[T]heir numbers are rapidly increasing by the ingress of perhaps the worst class the Slave states produce—the idle or infirm who are sent away, the vicious & insubordinate who run away. Thus the interests of masters and slaves concur in throwing into this State & perhaps this naborhood in particular those who as working men are driving away working citizens, for whom they are a very inferior substitute.”

The article does discuss white prejudice, white abuse of blacks, laws that subjugated blacks in Pennsylvania; it is not a one-sided screed blaming blacks.

White sentiment against blacks and racial friction predates the Confederacy and did not require ex-Confederate propaganda.


67 posted on 06/21/2023 3:10:43 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

68 posted on 06/21/2023 3:16:54 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: HamiltonJay

“May not have had slavery”

There were slaves in the North.


69 posted on 06/21/2023 3:17:07 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Unfortunately, the “negro” turned on the Republicans for the free stuff they could get from the FAR LEFT Dung Beetle Party Turd Rollers.

Yeah, how could the Republicans possibly compete when all they had to offer was dignity and self respect?!

70 posted on 06/21/2023 3:17:37 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now... )
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To: FLT-bird

The term has no independent meaning.

The CSA embraced every square inch of every former U.S. state that formed a part of it. Does “confederate” mean every person in that geographic area and thus subject to the jurisdiction of the government of the CSA during the “Wawh of Nawthun’ Aggression”? Meaning, every person whose citizenship snapped from CSA citizenship right back to USA citizenship?

Nobody casually referred to ordinary citizens as Confederates once the war ended, did they?

These joyously wordsmithing people must regard themselves as being absolutely brilliant, such that the rest of us are just not worthy.


71 posted on 06/21/2023 3:19:03 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
NBC and Comcast need to stir a race war. God forbid those “people” walk off the plantation as freemen. It would be horrible. Not.
72 posted on 06/21/2023 3:19:18 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Luke21

Is saying that confederates and the Confederacy should not be respected ‘piling on the South’?


73 posted on 06/21/2023 3:21:01 PM PDT by Republican in occupied CA (We had enough government in 1789)
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To: HamiltonJay
Oregon had black exclusion laws before the Civil War started. Whether it was racism or a desire to stay out of the slavery fight is debatable, though much racism existed. The Chinese, native peoples, and blacks were personae non grata.
74 posted on 06/21/2023 3:23:21 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The sainted abolitionists wanted to deport their freed asses to Africa...


75 posted on 06/21/2023 3:32:44 PM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I never knew the NYC draft riots were caused by relocated Southerners.

Just one example of racist behavior in the North before the Civil War ended. So I am not buying the authors’ narrative at all.


76 posted on 06/21/2023 3:38:48 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"...home of numerous former Southerners and it was populated by so many Confederate-aligned citizens that it supported John C. Breckinridge in the 1860 presidential election.

Notice that they conveniently left off his party affiliation: He was a member of the Democratic Party, and ran for president in 1860 as a Southern Democrat.

77 posted on 06/21/2023 3:39:47 PM PDT by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot comtly left out his party affiliation: e soon enough!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Idaho was a place where many migrants to the West went.

The black population in Idaho earns more, on average, than the white population.

Idaho is the only state in the nation where blacks earn more than whites, and their income also tops that of all other races and ethnic groups, according to the study “Idaho Blacks: Quiet Economic Triumph of Enduring Champions.”

78 posted on 06/21/2023 3:42:30 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The rebirth of the Klan in 1915. Who was President then? Oh Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat!


79 posted on 06/21/2023 3:45:57 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
There's a lot of money to be made in the "combat racism, be a victim" culture. Before Barack Obama, I had never heard the term "community organizer" to describe lawyers from Ivy League schools who were on some government payroll or another in order to help poor people feel cheated while doing nothing to improve the situation.

I suppose professional racism fighters will go away about the same time people profiting from COVID or climate change find another line of work.

80 posted on 06/21/2023 3:48:03 PM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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