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From: Hugh Lawson <hu.law...@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.war.civil.usa
Subject: Re: McPherson on acw as a revolution
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Wiregrass Willie <wiregrass_willieO...@yahoo.com> writes:

> On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:34:01 -0400, Hugh Lawson <hu.law...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>I've never seen a scientific comparison of social mobility, South as
>>compared to non-South.  Is there one?
>
> I ran across a statement that might prove you right about things being
> better for the Yeoman in the South after the War.     The rich people
> left,  and the poor people stayed and prospered.    It's an
> interesting thought. 

It's B.S., Willie.  Things were worse for the plain folk after the war,
and worse for the ex-slaveowners too.  The civil war was a catastrophe
for the southern whites.  After all, all of them had been benefitting
from the enslavement of the blacks.

The rich lost the immense wealth of the slaves they owned. The plain
folk lost the assurance that slavery would keep the blacks out of sight
and away from the good things the poor whites wanted.

The white sharecroppers and the black sharecroppers got about the same
deal from the landlord.  

There are no pretty pictures to be drawn from the wreckage of the Old
South. 

HL