This country sure is paying dearly for all that damn cotton.
I don’t think that this country, alone amongst all other nations in history, needs to be paying for something which happened over 100 years ago, for which rivers of the blood of whites was shed to end, and for which mountains of economic payment in the form of increasing “entitlements” has been paid.
We shoulda picked our own.
“This country sure is paying dearly for all that damn cotton.”
Yup! Now we have cities full of obsolete farm equipment!
In the warp and woof of history, many things go into what constitutes future events. Much blood was shed on both sides of the war to work through that issue (not that it was the prime cause). I think it's a fallacy to ascribe some kind of "karma" from the agricultural economics and cultural mores of the 19th century to today's problems. More closely related are the "War on Poverty" initiatives which were instituted in the 1960s, which decimated black families.