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How can one argue that the Confederate legacy lived on well after the end of the Civil War?
One can argue that the Confederate legacy lived on well after the end of the Civil War because of the fierce racial divisions that we can find in today's American society that have their roots in the Southern vs. Northern conflict that started the American Civil War.
Despite the efforts of President Lincoln and President Jackson to establish an "affordable" Reconstruction in the South after the war, southern legislation such as the Jim Crow laws and the black codes exacerbated the racial differences that persist until today.