The Failure of Reconstruction

The United States is a country that never even had a feudal era. The state machine was incapable of fighting a modern war and why should it? It was trying to fight a 20th century technological war with a feudal social engine. One third of white southerners are were landless and property lists property lists in 1860. Yes, they should have killed all the fucking planters. Obviously they should have strung up Everybody with the epilates on a shoulder in the Confederate army.