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Mark Shields's avatar

Exactly! And as well-documented in: Jefferson Cowie’s 2022 Pulitzer Prize winning book: ‘Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power’!

Old habits die hard! Some still desire the ‘freedom to dominate’ others, whether 1st Americans, women, or slaves.

The % republican maps onto the % slave-holding from 200 years before.

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