re: #1 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

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I think that’s the dirty secret of how the country got together after Reconstruction. We just acted like there wasn’t a civil war fought over slavery and while there were people in the different political parties that separated civil rights, it was never prioritized. I think the unfortunate consequence of how the New Deal helped so called white ethnics join the middle class is it also had their members forgetting that they were for a long time treated as not really being white. The UK doesn’t have a lot of Hispanic emigrants, residents, and or citizens because most of the people who left places like Spain went to our country, Mexico, Argentina, among others. But the UK does have a sizable Eastern European immigrant community that has gone up recently. The same British nativists that looked down on the Irish Catholics as intruders now do that to Eastern Europeans.

Plus, the KKK waged a second war in the South to end Reconstruction and allow the South to continue treating blacks as animals, and Johnson conceded to them.