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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Goal is to look like this when done. I would like to get it under a minute at Lime Rock but that's gonna take some doing... We'll see. Photo by Ed Hyman
 

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Yes and no. The South was about preserving the plantation system wealth. Against it was the rising merchant, mechanics, and small farmers and the small banks that were growing and were about enterprise and entrepreneurship. They threatened the status quo. The planters had no incentive to invest in anything other than growing more cotton.

I have the books from both sides of my family- those that owned bottomland and slaves and those that did not. The slaves were worth more than twice the land. And it took a hundred slaves to run one large plantation. Now have someone come say they should be freed and that is a deep deep threat to the plantation system and those around it that has most of its money in an increasingly scarce resource. The resulting mass psychosis infected many institutions most importantly the press and the southern military and spread throughout much of the South and caused a lot of horrible things to happen. John Brown’s raid was the match.

The roots of today’s Democratic Party are still tied to the plantation mentality and using fear and bigotry to maintain power.


This link is interesting because mass disarmament of the population occurred prior to it. And localized mob violence was used even though the majority of the population opposed the local elites. The root of this event was the clash between local small farmers and large landowners and fights over access to water. These types of events occurred all over the South prior to and during the war.

One thing that most people don’t realize is that Grant was successful in the West because the majority of the population was Abolitionist due to being small landowners and merchants and tradesmen sympathetic to individualism and who had often been lorded over by the planters. They provided him with intel and willing support after capture.

The junk about states rights is just a smokescreen for democrats to co opt independent minded folks into supporting them. States rights or federal rights does not matter if the moral issue is clear. The South claimed states rights to disarm much of its population. Claimed states rights to enslave people. Claimed states rights to stuff ballot boxes. Now history repeats itself.
Democracy works.
 
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