@Daojoan
This is analogous to the Reconstruction Era where self government included, for the first time ever in the US, elected officials of African descent usually those who had somehow been emancipated prior to the war but the millions of former enslaved men were able to participate in elections across all the states in former CSA states. Having less skill in governing and organizing the people gave rise to the KKK and similar racial violence of those who were never in the power structure.