RE DK CURRENT POST

"...Last but not least, in the last half century we have lost our belief in the superiority of reason, rather than emotion.  The emotional and moral restraint of the American people struck foreign observers like Tocqueville in the 19th century, and they saw it as critical to our democracy. In the civil war, the passionate, emotional aristocrats of the South lost to the more rational merchants and teachers of the North..." DK, now

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

RE IMMIGRATION HISTORY DK POST

"...For the new party, the spread of slavery, rather than the growth of immigration, was the main threat to free laborers in the North...." DK

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DK ON TOCQUEVILLE NORTHERN WHITE RACISM CAUSE OF CIVIL WAR:

' "...race prejudice seems stronger in those states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists, and nowhere is it more intolerant than in states where slavery was never known."(AT) Even in the northern states where black citizens theoretically enjoyed equal rights, he reported, they were too afraid to assert them. Those states that had abolished slavery had done so not to help the black man, but to help the white, both by leaving free labor without the competition of slaves and by eliminating the corrupting influence of owning slaves upon the whites.' DK, then, 2018.

I will just add a footnote here (, again,) to this prior post passage (excerpt) reprinted above.

Those Northern states that had abolished slavery had done so not only not to help the black man, and to help the white, and not only by leaving free white labor without slave competition, and not only by eliminating the corrupting influence of owning slaves upon whites, but, much more importantly, they did not want negroes around, free or slave, in the North or anywhere else in America.

That is really what Tocqueville had meant in 1830, in the passage DK quoted.

The Northern cause in the Civil War was supposed, according to the electorate, to result in the transportation, not the immediate, or the gradual, assimilation of negroes, slave or free.

They got screwed in every way. The only good, temporary, thing, for them, was that the Radical Republican Party kept the freed negroes in puppet control of only the South, not the North.
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The second DK excerpt has the link to the ridiculous Sean Trainor article in Time, re immigration and zenophobia being eliminated by the new Republican Party! Enjoy.