• 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Why do you think they wanted independence?

    It was the rich wanting to get more rich from the get go. Everything else was a smoke screen.

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      Agreed, but the reformation of the south was one of many chances our country had to turn things around and start actually practicing equality and democracy properly, and instead the country bent to the racists who wanted stable business. Some ideas just kept repeating for the following century and a half.