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One thingy the revisionists forget is that Northern opposition to the extension of slavery into western territories was based on the precept that the west should be for only the white man. Blacks were to be kept out and Indians either concentrated or killed.

One "thingy" revisionists like you forget is that Southerners expelled the tribes that had assimilated and lived as Whites did. You know the Cherokee and the Trail of Tears.

So who was the racist in 1860?

Start with slaveowners and we'll work out the rest later.

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“One “thingy” revisionists like you forget is that Southerners expelled the tribes that had assimilated and lived as Whites did. You know the Cherokee and the Trail of Tears.

So who was the racist in 1860?

Start with slaveowners and we’ll work out the rest later.”

You must be a yankee. Seems you forgot that the Federal Govt removed the Cherokee not the south. At the same time this occured the states of MO, KY, MD, DE were also slave owning states. Further, the states of IN, IL, OH, MI had laws on the books outlawing blacks from their state. Just remember who had no experience with blacks in 1860 and you might find those who had very bizarre illusions concerning the realities of slavery and the black population at large. So of the states remaining with the union in 1860, 4 were slave owning states, 4 had laws on the books outlawing blacks from settling in their confines, and all of 7 were non-slave owning states. Your anti-slavery crusade falls apart once you know the facts. Lincoln desparately used it to solidify his position to re-unify the union that he broke. This is the of yankee sainthood. Spare me the condesending projection.