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I have no doubt that this near-slavery condition will always exist, but that doesn't make it right. Confederates before the US Civil War argued in favor of sla
by unoti 14y ago
I have no doubt that this near-slavery condition will always exist, but that doesn't make it right.
Confederates before the US Civil War argued in favor of slavery, and some of the arguments weren't far off from that thinking. http://www.ushistory.org/us/27f.asp http://www.ushistory.org/us/27f.asp
- ms4720 14y agonot Confederates it was the Democrats that argued it
- craigyk 14y agoif I remember correctly, the Republicans and Democrats swapped places in every way but name not too long after that.
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- kyllo 14y agoYeah, after the Reconstruction there was a mass defection of Southern Democrats or "Dixiecrats" (aka unabashedly racist politicians, many of whom were Klan members) from the Democratic to the Republican party.
- mnutt 14y agoThe Southern Democrats moved over to the Republican party long after the Reconstruction, starting in the 1960s.