PugJesus@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoThe party has... changed a bit.lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1228arrow-down13
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minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·8 days agobecause Michigan (and other states in the north- WI, for example,) were anti slavery. the party’s base shifted more south-ward as they made inroads that way. and now we see that same assholishness come back. funny how that works.
minus-squareInvertedParallax@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-28 days agoFrom the architect himself: https://archive.org/details/emergingrepublic00kevi Dude was 100% explicit on what he was doing and who he was doing it with, he was scarily honest about their dedication to racism.
because Michigan (and other states in the north- WI, for example,) were anti slavery.
the party’s base shifted more south-ward as they made inroads that way. and now we see that same assholishness come back. funny how that works.
From the architect himself: https://archive.org/details/emergingrepublic00kevi
Dude was 100% explicit on what he was doing and who he was doing it with, he was scarily honest about their dedication to racism.