How Louisiana teaches students about the Civil War

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Hey, just so everyone in this thread knows, people who live in Louisiana are (and were!) still capable of thought. You're certainly welcome to criticize this textbook (which is not one I or anyone I know ever learned from), but spare me your holier-than-thou "if only we'd shoved our boot down the state's throat" nonsense.

EDIT: And just to add, for anyone who's actually curious: the state gave this textbook its lowest evaluation possible, in large part because of its sourcing failures (and thus narrative failures) in Chapters 10 and 11. Books get published all the time - doesn't mean anyone's actually using them.

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The South should have remained occupied until black equality was assured. Furthermore, every slave owner and Confederate military or government leader should have been executed for high treason. Had this been done, Jim Crow never would have happened and the Deep South wouldn't be the cesspool it is today.

Black equality doesn't exist anywhere in this country.