[Heyworth]

Cute. Yes, the north was just as racist as the south. They didn't want blacks living among them. Yes, they industrialized and mercilessly exploited workers, many of them immigrants.Are you going to actually make the old slaveowners' argument that slavery was good for blacks? That it was more kindly, or at least comparable in its harshness to sweatshop work?

One more time: why did the South want to expand slavery?

[stainlessbanner]

Listen, son. I am not an advocate of slavery, I don't excuse it, but I have the advantage of hindsight that our forefathers did not. You sound like a liberal on a conservative board.

[stainlessbanner]

Are you going to actually make the old slaveowners' argument that slavery was good for blacks?

Are you going to make that old Yankee elitist argument that the North was morally superior to the South?