Life in the South

The very status of normality decides in which rung of the social ladder we reside upon. Prior to the Civil War, the South lived in their normal way of life. That is that they were able to uphold their social hierarchy in which the Slaves were the very bottom rung, and the rich dictated politics. However, with the loss of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction, the South was changed. After Reconstruction, one could say that the southern people, black and white, returned to their normal lives. However, they certainly did not turn to their normal lives. They country, including the South had been changed forever, in its economic, political, and social ways of life.
Economically, the southern way of life had changed forever, and changed from its previous agricultural lifestyle, into a more industrialized society. Although, directly after the reconstruction, the south had still been primarily agriculturally based, after some time, it became industrialized. However, even then...