[Spooky23]

Federal inaction was driven by the cancer that was the Southern voting bloc. The Senate shelved anti-lynching legislation, even purely symbolic legislation was killed something like 48 times between 1900 and 1963.

The failure to deal with the slavery issue early on put us in this weird place... We're a people of paradox.

[einhverfr]

That can't explain Andrew Johnson's opposition to Sherman's land reform initiatives though. That was quashed by Northern industrialists.