Yes that's true--but the likes of Wilson and other leaders of the Jacka$$ cult fought to keep it going, especially in the south long after the Civil War--that was the intent of my comment.
“Yes that’s true—but the likes of Wilson and other leaders of the Jacka$$ cult fought to keep it going, especially in the south long after the Civil War—that was the intent of my comment.”
Yeah I understood your comment. It sounds like the usual “history” that Dinesh D’Souza and Glenn Beck have popularized, along with their South bashing.
New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson was elected President 47 years after the Civil War ended, so no, he wasn’t reinstituting slavery.
The 2nd KKK era which began in 1915 included two Republican Governors, one being Edward Jackson of Indiana. The Democrat = Klan is a myth, they had no party affiliation. The Klan was anti-Catholic at a time when Democrats were running Al Smith for President.
Jim Crow laws, Black Codes, existed all across Northern states in the decades prior to the Civil War. They weren’t invented in the South.