The US still hasn’t recovered from it and in many ways the war continues but through asymmetric/unconventional/covert institutional violence. It’s nearly back to the surface, though.
You could argue the cultural impact, I guess, and the confederacy’s impact on following American policy. Still, this is a bit of a stretch given that there was no shortage of racists in power in the north either.
One of the most destructive? By what metric?
The US still hasn’t recovered from it and in many ways the war continues but through asymmetric/unconventional/covert institutional violence. It’s nearly back to the surface, though.
You could argue the cultural impact, I guess, and the confederacy’s impact on following American policy. Still, this is a bit of a stretch given that there was no shortage of racists in power in the north either.