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To: Colonel Kangaroo
But a independent yeomanry of the freed slaves politically allied with the white yeomanry was not in the economic interest of the Democratic plantation class and their desire for a "disciplined" labor force

We seem to agree, then, that a rotating incumbency of elite, alienated political groups interested in splitting up the yeomanry, as you refer to the middle and lower economic classes, have played at the same politics of division without discernible differences in their m.o., despite overall differences in their own larger goals.

68 posted on 08/14/2007 2:09:00 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: lentulusgracchus
We seem to agree, then, that a rotating incumbency of elite, alienated political groups interested in splitting up the yeomanry, as you refer to the middle and lower economic classes, have played at the same politics of division without discernible differences in their m.o., despite overall differences in their own larger goals.

I think we do agree on that important fundamental. We might disagree more about the particular identity of the malevolent manipulators. I think that since the mid 1850s the Democratic party has been the greatest true enemy of the majority of Southern white people.

But there's nothing discriminatory about that. I also think that since the mid 1850s, the Democratic Party has been the greatest true enemy of the majority of Southern black people.

70 posted on 08/14/2007 2:21:09 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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