Hmmm, any way to get population exchanges between states? Not official perhaps, but... Hmmm. Maybe something with dividing the land of big plantations? Have some states (though it would probably be the federal government doing this) be more generous to freedmen in one place, while another helps out whites more. Not that many whites would want to do what they saw as ****** work, so they would need to turn into less plantation and more farm so they can do all the labor themselves. Maybe we should look up Male Rising and see what suggestions they had. Avoiding de facto ethnic cleansing would be preferably, and that timeline had a lovely line that “the ***** did more for us in four years than the planters did in forty” when the distribution of land helped both blacks and whites. Get enough of them onside to at least keep them semi content, especially if it means formerly disenfranchised areas of poor whites get to vote as well as receive infastructure money. Though given the terrain and demographics in the Deep South, it is not like any of them had a West Virginia analogue.