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Blight states a couple of times that Northerners did not feel ready to make reconstruction=reconciliation. They believed they shouldn't have to completely forgive and forget the South and the Civil War. Do you think the Northerners who shared this opinion were being fair to the South? Were their opinions part of the reason reconstruction wasn't successful right from the beginning? -Avanness | Blight states a couple of times that Northerners did not feel ready to make reconstruction=reconciliation. They believed they shouldn't have to completely forgive and forget the South and the Civil War. Do you think the Northerners who shared this opinion were being fair to the South? Were their opinions part of the reason reconstruction wasn't successful right from the beginning? -Avanness | ||
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| + | On page 111 Blight makes the following statement; "In Southern lore, in formal history, and eventually in popular culture, the Klan, as saviors of Southern society, racial order, and white womanhood attained a heroic image in American memory..." I can accept the "Southern lore" aspect and if the "formal history" was one written for a Southern audience I can accept that, but to say that the Klan were "heroic" in the context of the entire nation I have serious disagreements with Mr. Blight. I find it hard to believe that Blight believes it either, since following this statement he provides several pages of eyewitness accounts refuting the heroic nature of the Klan. Why would Blight make such a statement to begin with? -- R. King | ||
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| + | Blight again makes a statement on page 123 that is confusing to say the least, "Although Grant had stood up to the Klan and used federal authority to put it put of business in the South..." Was the Klan really put out of business? --R.King | ||
