@...Puulaahi: Lol wut? The Union was in charge of Reconstruction, not the former Confederacy. Are you perhaps referring to the Jim Crow era? Although neither of those really “fucked up the country for the next 100 years.” All either fucked up was the south. And Reconstruction wouldn’t have even been that bad it dumb shit John Wilkes Boothe hadn’t shot Lincoln.

“Semper fidelis tyrannosaurus!”

@...Sticky: Hell, Lawrence was a battleground before the War even started. It was an anti-slavery stronghold during the Bleeding Kansas era. Pro-slavery Border Ruffians had already attacked the place in 1856, although they only burned down one building. They did loot a few businesses and destroyed two abolitionist newspapers though.

@...Puulaahi: True, nothing ever is. But Lincoln favored a more lenient repatriation of the South, in order to allow the country to heal and move on from the hell it had gone through for the past four years. He likely would have kept it (or attempted to keep it) from being as harsh as it was, which (it could be argued) is what eventually did lead to Jim Crow. But, seeing as the south was never really on the cutting edge of race relations, Jim Crow might have happened anyway

Most southern politicians in the first three quarters of the 20th century did a lot of stupid things in response to what they saw as northern oppression. Or at least, that’s the justification they gave, since simple-minded racism doesn’t really play well in the press.

@...Puulaahi: Srsly. The “what-ifs” are the most fun part of history.

^_^

@...mAgnUS BUTTfoorson: Did you see the PVP strip where Brent and Cole get wishes from a Genie, and the last panel is them jumping a gully in the General Lee?