There's a lot of historical truth to this - the founding documents of the Confederacy express as much hostility to the North's public infrastructure projects and "internal improvements" as they did support for slavery They saw it as the same issue, their "way of life" https://twitter.com/theashleyray/status/1302024072725839872 …
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Whole history of the South is like this George Washington, who was very forward thinking for a Southern aristocrat, wanted the new capital city named after him to be a metropolis, he wanted it to be the center of a new canal system to rival New York's
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As soon as he died they abandoned all work on this and Washington DC remained an embarrassing muddy cow town with the White House and Capitol awkwardly parked in it until the 20th century The Washington Monument went up 100 feet and then stayed unfinished for decades
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Jefferson Davis met with Confederate state governors repeatedly during the war to talk about building a railroad because they really needed one, it would be a massive boost to their economy and make the war effort so much easier Never got off the ground
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Slavery, it turns out, is a great way for a civilization to be lazy You, personally, don't have any reason to give a shit about improving anything because your life remains comfortable as long as you can throw human labor at the problem The workers this affects don't get a vote
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(Hence the whole thing about ancient civilizations inventing things "early" -- the Inca only using wheels as children's toys, the Greeks inventing Hero's Aelipole, a simple steam engine, as an experiment -- but not using it for anything because why bother when you have slaves)
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Slaveowners: the first AnCaps? I’m sure it didn’t violate their NAP.
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This stuff is why I say that all this “economic anxiety” trump voter shit is absolutely backwards. To the extent that there is a causal connection to “economic problems among white people” and “racism among white people” the causation goes the other way (from racism to poverty)
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Jimmy in the dinner and people like him aren’t racist because the factory closed and so they’re clinging to their guns and religion. The causal angle, such as it exists, is that The factory closed because people like Jimmy in the diner are racist
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"What would it be like if Libertarian presidential candidates created a government" Ironically, the Confederate government soon became, in the last desperate year of the war, the despotic & confiscatory tyranny they accused the Union of being.
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I sure wish this were completely a relic of that era but... this crap is still alive and kicking.
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