The author has some notoriety as a "revisionist" himself.
1, 2, and 4 are basically accurate. 3 is a bit dodgy - if true, why would the military occupation mentioned in the first paragraph be needed? 5 is not realistic. Of course slavery would have eventually decayed in the face of America's industrial revolution and competition from mechanized farming and free laborers.
^However, two ideological factors caused most Southern whites, including those who were not slave-owners, to defend slavery. First, Americans are wondrous optimists, looking to the upper class and expecting to join it someday. In 1860, many subsistence farmers aspired to become large slave-owners. So poor white Southerners supported slavery then, just as many low-income people support the extension of George W. Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy now.^
This kind of stuff just leaks out of these guys, doesn't it?
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