Post-war Reconstruction made a beginning at addressing the conditions but very quickly became a vicious system meant to subjugate the southern Black populations,

No.

The word you are looking for is not "Reconstruction" that "became a vicious system".

Reconstruction, and the occupation by Union troops of areas in the south after the Civil War was down to the fact that blacks were being terrorized and murdered for attempting to exercise the rights granted in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

I think you meant to say "Redemption" - the "Redeemers" being those reactionary and racist southerners that successfully managed to kill off enough blacks and terrorize the rest back into a state of semi-slavery, thereby "redeeming" the south back to virtually the same situation that exixted ante-bellum.


The north was sold it as a holy war about slavery.

Sorry Dan, but no- the war in the North was "sold" about preserving the Union - it wasn't until the Emancipation Proclaimation (1863) that the slavery question entered into it at all as far as the North was concerned, and even then the slaves in slave states that remailed loyal to the Union were NOT freed, and a goodly number of northerners were not at all happy about the Proclaimation at all.

however the only north people who came were carpet baggers and other thieves

Ah, the old "carpetbagger" myth - I thought that one WAS dead- killed off long ago by fact. Dan, pick up a copy of Eric Foner's "Reconstruction" or his shorter version therof, "Forever Free". Or "Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction". Or perhaps W.E.B. Du Bois' "Black Reconstruction in America". Think you'd enjoy reading what actually went on, and about the Neo-Confederate campaign down to the present day to distort the story.

The South does have great food and wonderful music- and that makes up for a lot! lol

Yes it does - but it doesn't make up for damn near enough.