Southern values revived. How a brutal strain of conservative American aristocrats have come to rule

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1. From the time of the Constitutional Convention when a main, and un-resolved, issue was slavery,

which was dealt with by assigning 3/5-of-a-man value to slaves as property to landed slave owners to enfranchise the slave owners for the constitutional debate, to 2008, when it was no accident that a SECESSIONIST ran on the Republican Presidential ticket and continues to pimp Wars 'r' Us as the only jobs that the 1% ever provided anyone for all of their taxes that we have been paying for them, this country has been and still is held hostage by the lowest common-denominator amongst us and their slave-holdings have extended beyond color to include entire middle and lower economic classes.