re: #233 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Starting with the Compromise of 1877, the end of Reconstruction, Jim Crow and continued segregation were collectively the required price of national reconciliation and unity. It was too high but progressive administrations accepted it right up to the time of JFK. Southern racists held up their end of bargain, too, and became some of the most loyal and jingoistically patriotic Americans. Even today, racists maintain this pretense.

The South got half a loaf or less. Without a movement to reconcile we would remain two societies—a country and a colony. The only way to actually defeat the separatists was to pull them back into a true union. That’s a process that is not yet complete, and might yet fail.