Lord Frieza
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In reality the South was punished terribly in the years after the war.
If you mean that something official should have been passed, some sort symbolic shaming, I can see where you are coming from, but it would have been a terrible mistake.
Don't want to derail but just my two cents.
It wouldn't have been a terrible mistake at all. The fact that we didn't get that directly feed into the founding of groups like the KKK and allowed the South to essentially rewrite history to their advantage. It was one of the greatest missteps in our history to not symbolic and literally destroy every thing the South stood for after the war was over.