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Invisible Empire: Ku Klux Klan in America
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The "culture of resistance" was decisive in the long run. The South proved to be ungovernable for its conquerers. White Southerners refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of their appointed rulers. They refused to concede that blacks could hold elected office in the South or vote in Southern elections. Southerners tenaciously clung to their supposedly "outdated" traditions and way of life.

After twenty years of Reconstruction, the North abandoned the quixotic project and concluded it had been a mistake. Northerners tired of hearing about outrageous corruption, incompetent black legislators, race riots, lynchings, and general chaos. The Republican Party was overthrown in every Southern state and federal troops were withdrawn in 1877.

Moral of the story: The North was unable to establish the legitimacy of its rule in the South. It could only rely upon brute force to exercise its power. The Northern public did not have the appetite to use brute force indefinitely and eventually conceded Southern home rule.

http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2010/06/21/invisible-empire-the-ku-klux-klan-in-america/

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