U.S. Reconstruction much more successful, civil rights in North the same

So, the North is just like it is in OTL. There is controversy continuing into 2015 about police use of excessive force in northern cities.

The South is just more advanced on questions of civil rights. So much so that people sometimes say on the news, hey, let's not rag on the North so much. That is, pretty much a complete reversal of how things are today.

Okay, so how does this come about?
 
Alright, as far as farmers getting a fair shake, prevent the blatant abuses of grain elevators, railroads, and other similar quasi-monopolies.

If this kind of thing is done, the southern 'coalition' of economics for elites and placating poor whites with all kinds of anti-black rhetoric and policies may never develop, and we may see a far different South.

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For to this to happen, maybe the general-director of the South is a progressive, or sees the importance of winning over the majority of poor and middle-class whites. If necessary, use eminent domain to take over a railroad and see that farmers get a fair shake. Maybe after one or two times, the mere threat of this is a pretty effective Ace to flash.

As far as the politics, yeah, if the Republicans in Congress sees the importance of building pro- middle-class economics, this approach may have more than enough political backing.
 
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The hinge point might be that these pro-average citizen and broadening the economic base actually start to work and in a generation and a half the previously ruined South is pulling equal with the North.

And in the 1960s, a civil rights figure in the North is talking about how the North lags behind culturally, economically, educationally, and a big reason is that African-American citizens are not yet treated as regular, first-class citizens.

And sometimes on the news, someone will defend the North by giving a version of, Hey, the thing to remember is that the South had a fresh start; the North didn't.
 
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