MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show April 25, 2014
in the years after the civil war the southern states were still far from folded back into the union. they were still under the control of the federal troops. the southern states were legally part of the union again but only because they had lost the war. and so they were also kind of occupied territories. and they hated it. after years of the reconstruction era of the southern state capitals being occupied by federal troops after the civil war, white southern lawmakers used a series of political machinations that would make a senator blush to wrangle through congress at the time a la...
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