Why is the South still angry about the Civil War?

Been forced to treat another culture equally is something that had to come because it has to overcome early family education  and is possibly even tied into our autotomic nervous system.  Think about that because we all recall meeting another race type for the first time.  That typically triggers an involuntary response which could easily be used to train the autotomic nervous system to have negative feelings however irrational.

I personally experienced this with a friend whom I had negative feelings toward for zero reason. Introspection resolved this, but i was surprised by it.

So yes this is an unwelcome bias, not made better by the adoption by some blacks of cultural oddities meant to disturb white chaps.  We all need to work at getting past it all.

I am greatly heartened today because I can see no end of blacks of television sounding completely like Americans and that is how it should be.  It may still take a while longer5 in the south ,but this is now the tale end.

Of course, when we finally eliminate poverty as a factor all excuse will disappear..

Why is the South still angry about the Civil War?

Thomas H Pritchett

Former Chemisty Instructor at Cedar Crest College (2003–2022)Jun 12

I grew up in the South up until the mid-80’s when I first moved to Colorado and them to the Northeast for employment opportunities. As I was growing up I was always taught that the South had forgiven the North for winning the Civil War but hey would remember the Reconstruction for a long time. How much truth there was in that statement I will never know but I do know from seeing it first hand, many families in the South hated the Federal mandates that came down during the Civil Right reforms of the 60s and early 70s. They also rejoiced when the similar efforts in Northern cities such as Boston and Chicago resulted in widespread protests and even riots. I watched as the South shifted from being strong Democrats because of how FDR’s New Deal helped so many families stay alive and often keep their small farms and businesses to becoming staunch Republicans because of LBJ’s Civil Rights reforms. I would now suggest that most of those still angry in the South are not angry over the Civil War or even the Reconstruction.

Instead most of current anger goes back to being forced to treat Blacks as their equals. As that is the reason why political strategies with racist overtones are still so successful in securing elections in the deep South.