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BaronChocula

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3. Never had a spine?

Reply to Keepthesoulalive (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 12, 2026, 02:17 PM

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Abolition took some moral fortitude as did Reconstruction while it lasted I'd say. It's why freed blacks overwhelmingly served in legislatures as Republicans and voted Republican for years after the Civil War.

Today's republicans are a way different story.

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