The south being left in ruin leads to a lot of people becoming far right, it was foolish of the north to have banned slavery, ruin the south and then not try fix the southern economy

It leads to political divide

There was no option for most of the south to be revitalized

They were based entirely around slave agricultural cash crops with very little industry or natural resources to go with it

Yeah, but many countries have been reformed drasticaly

I think if the federal government had spent money on building industry there

it would not have been as bad

Whatever they would have built wouldve been overshadowed by the northern version as they had been operating longer doing the same tasks

Not if they spent a long time constantly investing in southern industry

but that would be quite a complex thing to do

Indeed and its never as simple as it sounds.

I mean it's possible, it's just that it'd be very difficult and I mean very

The issue is that theres nothing to improve and no missing industry

Bro, have you ever heard of Ireland or Singapore?

Came from nothing, almsot no natural resources (Ireland only has some fish)

>Singapore
>no natural resources

It does have almost none though

They import most of their stuff

It's just that they are good with what little they have, same as Ireland

Besides the circumstances are different

Ye I just meant in general

there's got to be a way

Singapore was being industrialized at a point where foreigners were willing to invest heavily in industry

That feeling didnt exist until after world war two. Prior to that all nations wanted as much domestic industry as possible.

Yeah that is a good point I probably should have thought of

Ill have to study Ireland a bit more before i understand how they achieved their current status

Most of my studies has been on the post world war two history of Asian countires

I know a lot about Ireland, It gained its riches from good trade relations, low corporate tax making tons of beef then spent the money gained on educating people and thus also leading in the pharmaceutical industry. Summed up very simplisticly and shortly

Not saying it couldn't be done, but I don't think that what worked for Ireland would be entirely relevant to what could work for the American south. Just Texas alone is 10 times the size of Ireland and a thousand times bigger than Singapore

Yeah I get what you mean, when it comes to industralisation obv the larger the harder

it is to do

Did you know that the legend of Saint Patrick was about the man who drove the original black inhabitants out of Ireland

Ireland was originally an afro-centric colony thats why they are so good at making music

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I'm fairly certain that's wrong, you got a source on that? From what I know it's about him driving the druids from Ireland and converting the people to Catholicism since he believed that the druids were "snakes" as in symbols of evil/charlatans

Source: I'm irish

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http://afroperspectives.com/st-patricks-day-decoded/

Those kind of theories quite fascinating me, where you look at author you cannot be sure how much of it its trolling and how much is actually beliving that shit.

Really? That's strange, I've never heard of the Twa people before and my granddad is very into his Irish history, so it's just a little surprising to me.

Yeah, AskHistorians is saying the Twa people being from Ireland was a myth invented around the 1800s-1900s