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Yep, familiar with that theory. That’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about general industrialization of north making it slowly less dependent on southern economy for feeding textile mills, and easier to cut it off.
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Ehh, “paradigm shifts” as Kuhn said. They aren’t really sudden, or at least they build up for decades or centuries, it just seems sudden when an old paradigm falls out of solution. Then there’s reaction and/or consolidation and the process starts again.
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I don’t think these (even abolitionism) are really “moral” shifts, just “political” ones. They don’t necessarily change the hearts of even people who support them, just a kind of collective expression.