re: #365 whitebeach

Deb, I luv ya, but I gotta point out that a whole shitload of Americans in 1864 and 1944 and in fact to this day would have given damn near anything, and sometimes gave everything, reaching and hoping and praying for “fair, just democratic rule.” The trouble was that these people weren’t “white.”

And before you tell me about the psychology of the zeitgeist or whatever, let me point out that in Louisiana in the early 1890s there were more than 120,000 black voters. After the John Crow state constitution passed in, I think, 1898, there were 1,300 black voters.

How much better would they have fared as the very visible wards of a multi-generation military occupation? We’re wandering in alternate history.

(Zeitgeisting and all, but I don’t think even they would have sought the fair/just definition that Marshal Reeves proposed above in 359.)