Which of the following statements is FALSE?
A. Southerners did not think that they could sustain their plantations and pay for the labor needed to farm them after slavery was abolished.
B. After the Civil War, white Southerners wanted the South to return to the lifestyle and culture it had experienced before the war.
C. One purpose of the Black Codes was to keep African Americans segregated from white Americans.
D. One purpose of the Black Codes was to keep African Americans in a lower social position than white Americans.