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[–] 1775865? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I realize that the North wasn't a super happy fun land that rejected racism. People who think it was having considered the fact that Jim Crow probably wouldn't exist in a racially tolerant society.

We like to personify North and South as if they're two individual entities, but there were a lot of different people with different political power, state and federal. The states could say X, congress could say Y, and Lincoln could say Z. Anyone without a degree in U.S. history probably isn't 100% right; the actual narrative is a lot more complicated than the emotionally driven ones we know as "The evil/heroic North defeating the freedom loving/racially oppressive South".