Re: Kansas Poverty and Jayhawking
I agree that taking advanatge of chaos for personal gain is nothing new or particularly unique. However, in the context of the Civil War, the Border War was particularly nasty, and the plundering along the border and practiced by Kansans was particularly widespread. This can be attributed to a number of factors. I believe that one of those factors is the poverty that existed in Kansas at the outbreak of the war.