I mean, they set up a pretty brutal theocracy that ended up hanging a bunch of people for being witches, so... yeshttps://twitter.com/Itsjoeco/status/1322302638470402050 …
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North Carolina, for instance, is the result of people fleeing Virginia into the crappy uninhabited northern part of the Carolina colony which was officially owned by the rich assholes in Charleston The split into NC and SC was because it was easier than kicking them out
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I guess theoretically the "right" way of doing it would be to be Maroons
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I mean, The people running the projects aren't necessarily the same as the people the colony gets populated with. Like, at the extreme, there's Australia and Georgia's history as penal colonies.
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And I've seen it suggested elsewhere that "poor people get pushed into 'newly opened frontiers' [freshly stolen land] as a first wave to soften it up for the ruling class that later comes in and takes over" is a pattern that dates all the way back to the Roman empire.
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Historically, the downtrodden have the sense to just move into the shabbier parts of NYC
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