I don't pretend to think I can answer this question to anyone's
satisfaction, but the terrible suffering, depression and division that
followed the war did not end in the southern states for a long time.
Perhaps in some cases, it lasted longer than the lives of those born
during the war. The reactions to wars always seem to poison the lives
of the defeated populace and lead to resistance tactics which seem to
last long past memory of the reasons for their very existence.

Marilyn


>          Are you suggesting that the answer to children's questions of Why? is that the suffering followed the war led to a divisiveness and that's why there had to be separate toilets and schools? If so, why didn't the divisiveness end when the suffering ended?

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