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Thread #155759   Message #3668223
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
11-Oct-14 - 08:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Post-Civil War Marshall Plan
Subject: RE: BS: Post-Civil War Marshall Plan
Olddude, I agree.
The poor whites and the poor blacks remained large segments of the southern population until WW2.

Attempts at Reconstruction measures in Congress died in 1878. The South entered the "long sleep."