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HooptieWagon

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4. Yes, true.

Reply to CajunBlazer (Reply #3)

Sun Jun 28, 2015, 05:04 PM

Jun 2015

However, there was plenty of white on white violence too. There was no effective govt or law enforcement, it all was horribly corrupt. Florida, post Reconstruction, made the "Wild West" look like a church picnic. This happened where I grew up. I know descendants of the gang and victims:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarasota_Assassination_Society

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Remembering the Confederacy Too Fondly [View all] CajunBlazer Jun 2015 OP

Also, NOLALady Jun 2015 #1

Reconstruction.... HooptieWagon Jun 2015 #2

After Reconstruction... CajunBlazer Jun 2015 #3

Yes, true. HooptieWagon Jun 2015 #4