Without the atrocities of the reconstuction ira I doubt that the jim crow
laws would have even existed. There Are many cause and effects that you'd
have to consider. Like I said there was a substanial antislavery movement in
the south. Only 4-6 per cent of people had slaves. Of course the
carpetbaggers and scalwags from the north come south and looting everything
they could get their hands on created quite a bit of hate and resentment
that exist until this day. Blanket statements about what would have happened
can not be made with out lots of thought. I have thought about lots of these
things for many years as I studied the history of the 1860's era and the
aftermath of the war. History is not exactly as  it is being tought in
school. There is one thing that is always true. The winner of a war gets to
teach history as they please and the loser only has a few books out there
presenting the other side. The winning side was not lilly white and the
loser side not coal black. Truth is always somewhere in the gray area.

-----Original Message-----
From: Magenta Raine [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 1:46 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: another shooting

In a message dated 10/23/02 11:30:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
writes:

> constitution what is not there and
> never was there then we would have seen the wisdom of the founders. But,
> with the right to secede from the union, that was reserved by some of the
> states in their ratification documents  taken away by force, there was and
> is not today any deterant from activist judges reading into law what would
> never pass in the legislative branch. Most of the founders envisioned the
> states running the national government and not vice versa.
>
and with the right to secession, those southern states would have kept the
Jim crow laws intact. (these are the many laws that kept people of color "in
their places" before the 1960s protests)

Mag. Who has been doing research for my PCA regarding Jim crow, and seeing
the PBS TV series on Jim crow.

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