Would southern rednecks still own slaves if it wasn’t for government intervention?
March 1, 2010 by
Filed under southern redneck
Who cares about Abraham Lincoln’s party?
Abraham Lincoln was a liberal, plain and simple.
The parties are hardly what they were over a century ago
big mean govment telling us what to do!
It’s Communism! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Little_Rock_integration_protest.jpg
Absolutely.
I guess northern schools get too much credit, if you are their typical output.
Surely you must know that Southern generals believed that the institution of slavery would die on it’s own? The North only played the slavery card for political reasons that had little to nothing to do with the morality of the institution or how Northern leaders saw blacks. They had their own version of slaves-indentured servants. Government intervention-as you call it-merely destroyed state’s rights.
Peace
No but you would still be working 6 days a week sunup until sundown in a dirty unsafe factory for 5 dollars a week. Does that sound any better. Northerns exploited millions of European immigrants, treating them worse than slaves, because there were another thousand to replace the dead.
whoaaaaaaaaa lol
Go back and read the history book people in the north owned them too.
No. The constitution of the confederate states made it so that slavery would have been phased out over 20 years. Learn some history bigot.
Government intervention?
Ohh, you mean by the Republican president Abraham Lincoln?
no..there isn’t any work for them to do any more…….lol
If they could they surely would ! They hate like hell that it is over .
No, they never had the money that the southern elites did, so most had no slaves either, even before the war. Southern society was / is more diverse and complicated than that. see here
http://www.claytoncramer.com/bookreviews/blackmasters.htm
former slaveholders would have more likely joined with “redeemers” after the war, not “rednecks.”
Ironically these “redeemers” would have also used the word “redneck” as a derogatory term!
the wiki article is an interesting read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck
“Jim Goad’s 1997 book The Redneck Manifesto explores the socioeconomic history of low-income Americans. According to Goad, rednecks are traditionally pro-labor and anti-establishment and have an anti-hierarchical religious orientation.
“Goad argues that elites manipulate low-income people (blacks and whites especially) through classism and racism to keep them in conflict with each other and distracted from their exploitation by elites.”"”"
No, karma eventually takes over. They are now the slaves of the people who pay the right wing media. There are theives & fools in the republican party & they are the fools which is entraping them. The medical insurance companies, drug companies have the republicans spending a fortune to keep them rich. The republicans are the unhealthy people who eat lots of red meat, would never do yoga to relax & think no matter where they are they can yell out & call people liars as if life is one big Jerry Springer show. They are in fear of losing freedom cause they are the slaves. They are slaves in the worst way.
Yeah, because to a conservative states rights are more important than individual rights.
Most southern rednecks couldn’t afford slaves The majority of slaves were owned by the Southern Gentry. There were tons of poor white folk who lived at the margins of society in the south before the civil war. Since the South was not industrialized, all the jobs were in the North and there were tons of immigrants available to work cheap up there. But the South was an agrarian economy, so the only jobs available were farm worker jobs, and slaves worked them.
So if you were poor and White in the South before the Civil War, you could not afford a slave. I figure the same would be true today.