Your clam chowder comment was beneath you, really. A rather sophomoric defection for someone with such a depth of knowledge, despite your obvious misinterpretation of the facts you’ve accumulated. Since returning to your discussion of economic matters in the antebellum period will be both time consuming and a defection from the very simple matter I wish to clarify, I will not do so until you state in clear and concise terms exactly what social changes you were referring to.
You weren’t doing so before. I suppose it was too much to expect any objectivity.