• Leer10@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    And ideologically modern Republicans are closer.

    Example: who supported removing punishment of crimes as exemptions for slavery in the recent state votes. Much more democrats than Republicans

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        1 year ago

        Thinking it means you can use slavery as a punishment for a crime. Which is how generations of black men and women were still enslaved in all but name in the south, by criminalizing their existence.