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Domine, ne derelinquas nos.

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From Alaska, Happy Independence Day.

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Come on out, Alaskans!

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@WanjiruNjoya @Jeff_Davis1808 ok, this is now becoming a waste of my time.
if you read anything i've ever written, you'd know that what you just wrote is an absurd claim.
i know my arguments quite well, think about these things a lot.

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@WanjiruNjoya @Jeff_Davis1808 ok, happy to do a public debate with you.

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@WanjiruNjoya @Jeff_Davis1808 from the perspective of classical political science it is pretty obvious what the govt was in the slaveholding states.
look at who controlled the offices of govt in ALL of the slaveholding states - very high % high slaveholding.
this fact has to be dealt with. you don't.

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@PaleoconJohn @WanjiruNjoya @Jeff_Davis1808 that's neither here nor there.
what is relevant is that the settlers who influenced political cult in SC from the beginning were from west indies, esp. barbados. So to obtain a more neutral opinion, you can look at what contemporaries say about brit. west indies.

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@Jeff_Davis1808 Is slavery a positive good?
Is natural equality in the Declaration of Independence the worst heresy in political history?

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@Jeff_Davis1808 @ArmisDei @FDRLST Any of you guys want to debate or discuss, I'm happy to do so.

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@CliffordBates12 @BrionMcClanahan The latter describes SC, Cliff.

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@BrionMcClanahan That is wrong.

Again, he's an historian & might know the smell of Edgefield County but many don't know how to make political sense of the facts.

Both houses of the state leg were dominated by high slaveholding men. They elected the gov.

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@Jeff_Davis1808 @seanmdav "The Southern States of America are on the same principle aristocracies"

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@BrionMcClanahan John Brown was the lamented counter-attack, which was understandable but wrong, just as oaths to start war now after so many assaults on the civil liberties of conservatives today would be understandable but wrong. That was the point of my article.

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@ArmisDei @FDRLST You're right, I'm a faux historian but a true political scientist. And I live in Alaska, not the west coast.

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@Jeff_Davis1808 @seanmdav Read what I just posted. It's there.

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@Jeff_Davis1808 Then how do you make sense of Madison's note flatly contradicting your claim that the southern states were republican?

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@BrionMcClanahan Bottom line, if you want to know my compass, John Adams is my north star. I would have liked to have been a Federalist in 1800 and a Republican in 1856.

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@BrionMcClanahan The people you mention, Richardson, Foner and Sinha could not do regime analysis either. I have nothing in common with their politics but do with yours.