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Entry: Down the Memory Hole Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/down_the_memory_hole#30011 Post contents: I think you make some valid points, TZ. But as someone posted over at the Douthat thread, the Southern states basically invited Leviathan. They wouldn't use their local and state rights to do the right thing and behave justly toward blacks, so the feds invaded and replaced Jim Crow with federal power. Cultural suicide. I know that lynching was not restricted to the South, and I know that not all victims of vigilante justice were black. But I also know that a number of Blacks in the South were lynched, and that the juries were all white, and there was no way to get a fair trial. Those are the signs of barbarism. And if the South really remembered Reconstruction and learned any lesson from it, they should have suppressed the Klan and the lynchers on their own instead of waiting for the feds to come in. They should have treated black applicants at voting booths have an equal shot with white applicants. All those old Anglo-Saxon values and what-not. Sent at: 2008 12 01