Correct, we should not accept this view of history and creating in these states over 360 laws is actually copying inequality into the law, which then must be carried out by law enforcement officials throughout those 15 states, as well as educator who *must* under law segregate schools, and ministers who are prevent by law from performing a marriage between a black American and a white American. These are NOT cultural practices; they are laws. And those school administrators, justices of the peace, policemen, and teachers given state sanction text books had to follow the *law* when conducting their jobs. In these fifteen states, white racism was not a “cultural” or societal practice or artifact, it was the law. Follow the law and the power it gives you as DA, sheriff, judge, or train conductor or lose your job. Those laws made by super duper white majority clearly were written with intentional segregation by telling officials on all levels how to treat black Americans and separate them from whites. These were not simply ‘wrongs’ done on individual levels, but state laws enshrining government power into segregationist action. These 15 states in particular, though other ones had some of the laws, violated American equality by writing and passing laws that mentioned race and how to treat people based on the white perception of race. It was in short a period where these states could right be considered ‘anti-American’, as legislatures and governors who signed these laws, agreeing to enforce them, were violating the spirit of equality, liberty and justice for all, as embedded in natural inalienable rights made at the founding of the country. But then again, they had resisted changes their laws since before the founding, and never really stop. So you could argue the whites who took political power in these states lived in a constant state of insurrection against the founding democratic principles.

Thanks for your comments and sparking some insight.