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Thursday, March 24, 2011
A wonderful, true, perplexing and ultimately frustrating, possibly to the point of maddening "Quote of the day"
Americans are wondrous optimists, looking to the upper class and expecting to join it someday. In 1860, many subsistence farmers aspired to become large slave-owners. So poor white Southerners supported slavery then, just as many low-income people support the extension of George W. Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy now. --James W. Loewen, The Washington Post
Links: http://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths-about-why-the-south-seceded/2011/01/03/ABHr6jD_story.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/16/AR2010121606200.html
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