re: #241 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

A great point from the article:
“First, Americans are wondrous optimists, looking to the upper class and expecting to join it someday. In 1860, many subsistence farmers aspired to become large slave-owners. So poor white Southerners supported slavery then, just as many low-income people support the extension of George W. Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy now.”

Yes. That was a good point. Slavery was also okay with many low income whites because they could always poitn to slaves and say “Well at least “I’m not a slave”, abolition threatened that.