Jim Crow architects saw the threat that free market commerce posed to the maintenance of white supremacist hierarchy and used local democratic majorities (and extralegal terrorism) to prevent, for example, businesses from serving blacks. You can see how
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Replying to @conor64 @FiveFifths
"Local democratic majorities" seems an odd way of describing a system that was built on rolling back democratic expansion of Reconstruction & disenfranchising most blacks (and some poor whites).
6:58 PM - 9 Aug 2018
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