Of course you know there were slave holders up north. There were lots of northern mill owners who made money off of slave labor too and there were THOUSANDS of black slave owners. Those sins, as you call them, can be spread all over the north and over all races.
The author had better be careful using an expression like “darken the door.” He will be accused of being a bigot and hounded mercilessly.
Some, sure.
But most northern states were not slave states (for economic reasons more than cultural superiority, I think), and we got the stupid rule that we can’t have basic civics requirements for voting because of the the “Literacy Tests” (replete with secret, unappealable, board that determined if you passed) used to keep blacks from being able to vote.
That particular sin was unique to the Jim Crow south, and caused us the problem.
As an aside, saw Condi Rice talk about why she was a Republican. Her dad walked into a Democratic location and asked to register. The guy behind the counter held up a jar of beans and told her dad he could register if he could tell him how many beans there were in the jar.
He left, went to the Republican location, and they signed him right up.
Still baffles me how blacks got hoodwinked by the bigots that run the Dim party. They created laws and a welfare state in an cynical effort (a successful effort, too, I might say) to keep them down and tied to the Dim party.
Makes me ill.