Which of the following statements about "lynch law" is LEAST accurate?
A) Although it was especially prevalent in the South,lynching was also a problem in the Midwest.
B) Most lynchings were justified on the ground that the murdered men had raped or threatened to rape white women.
C) Many more persons were lynched in the last fifteen years of the nineteenth century than in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century,but the tallies in both periods numbered more than a thousand.
D) Lynching was notably more common in the Deep South than it was in the Upper South or the Southwest.
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