re: #302 jaunte

That part is just bizarre to me. Great-great gran’pappy was wrong, and he lost. Let it go.

As in some other Southern states, a key aspect is how the Union won. Other than the (admittedly critical) capture of Vicksburg, Grant and Sherman didn’t target Confederate forces in Mississippi so much as they deliberately set out to destroy the state’s ability to support said forces. It was ugly, impoverishing, and deeply humiliating to the white population of the state and they have not forgotten it.

Scorched Earth tactics won the war in Mississippi, but winning the peace required a longer-term and more-costly (both in money and blood) effort than the North was ultimately willing to make.