I really wish Lincoln hadn’t been assassinated. He didn’t just want to reclaim the South; he wanted to reintegrate them and heal the massive sociopolitical wounds. I think the country would be significantly better off if he had been alive to carry out his plans.
It’s an oversimplistic comparison and maybe wasn’t fully possible, but imagine a post-Civil War US where the North did for the South what the US and other countries did for West Germany and Japan.
I really wish Lincoln hadn’t been assassinated. He didn’t just want to reclaim the South; he wanted to reintegrate them and heal the massive sociopolitical wounds. I think the country would be significantly better off if he had been alive to carry out his plans.
It’s an oversimplistic comparison and maybe wasn’t fully possible, but imagine a post-Civil War US where the North did for the South what the US and other countries did for West Germany and Japan.
You mean, transform them into cowed little manufacturers of quality automobiles while they still inwardly remain seethingly racist?