I hope some people actually look at the policies of radical reconstruction during the 1860s and 1870s. It was because of these attempts at destroying southern culture that blacks achieved for the first time representation in office. Moderate Republicans at the time felt that simply encoding into law the rights of blacks would be enough to protect blacks once the South re-integrated into the Union. What became of that was Jim Crow and the perversion of the law through inaction by racist police and loopholes written into law by racist state governments. There are more than a few districts in the deep south who still have not elected a black representative since the 1880s, despite the demographics of the area.

You people have no idea what you are talking about when it comes to the insidious nature of racism against blacks in the South and midwest.