Quote:But the hatred of the South by the North generated, by many steps and over many generations, the hatred of the race riots of the 60's.Wouldn't it be more reasonable to say that, by a couple more steps and a couple more generations, that the race riots of the '60s were generated by slavery?
Also a question: was the KKK really not a racially motivated organization from day one? It would be rather remarkable to me if it wasn't - reconstruction was one thing, but the biggest single change in the post-Civil War south was the end of slavery, and the nominal end of legal white supremacy. Restoration of those "rights" would have been at the very top of their agenda, wouldn't it? I don't know much about the topic, so maybe I'm wrong, but I'd like to see something that says otherwise.
-Jester