"Earlier" meaning the Civil War and the years leading up to it. 50 and more years after the war, Beard and the progressive historians and others of their generation so hated industrial capitalists and the Republican Party that they sought to remove slavery from the Civil War.
Not just the North East nowadays. I am also quite alarmed about the outright Fascism and Tyranny coming out of the Tech Oligarchs in San Francisco.
What do you think about these powerful corporations and their tendency to censor speech they don't like?
The technology makes your worldview archaic. What you don't like about New York City or San Francisco is to be found in Atlanta or Charlotte or Nashville or Houston or Phoenix or Salt Lake City. And in the future, things will be even more mixed up. So whatever you or I think about Facebook or Google or Twitter, it's not going to provide you with a soap box to go on attacking New York City.
What was slavery's role in the Civil War? It had been going on in the USA for "Four Score and Seven Years", and nothing about it was going to change at the beginning of the war.
What you don't like about New York City or San Francisco is to be found in Atlanta or Charlotte or Nashville or Houston or Phoenix or Salt Lake City.
Virtually total control of the internet also occurs in Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Houston, Phoenix and Salt Lake City? I'm not sure we are communicating properly here.
The multi-trillion dollar tech oligarchs which are currently manipulating search results, censoring speech they don't like, selling personal data, and assisting China with their Big Brother monitoring of their people, are all occurring in the Tech Corporations of Silicon Valley. (Effectively San Fransisco.)
I do not grasp what the H3ll you are talking about when you say this same threat to us exists in those other cities you named. No it does not. The *THREAT* exists in San Fransico. I regard these corporations as deadly dangerous, and apparently you do not. I can only attribute what appears to be your position, to a lack of knowledge about what has been going on in the world of the internet.
So whatever you or I think about Facebook or Google or Twitter, it's not going to provide you with a soap box to go on attacking New York City.
And you conspicuously failed to mention what that was. One can only think that you feel the answer would support what I am saying, or else you would have simply came out and said what you think about these monster tech corporations.