In the 1863 draft & race riots in New York City, the largely poor & working-class Irish Democrat rioters lynched black people & attacked Republicans, abolitionists, the wealthy, & pro-Union newspapers. The New York Times survived by surrounding its building with Gatling guns.
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Not sure the relevance as it relates to your original point and my counterpoint except to posit that the Republican Party and the Confederacy had similar tax policies.
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