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This is both a pre 1900 but also a post 1900 debate.
What if Congress had come to a conclusion post civil war that states like Alabama, Georgia were unable to govern themselves? And they by 1920s still were under direct rule from Washington. How would this have effected 20s century U.S?
While mass-immigration from the Nothern states to the other parts of the South had been encouraged?