Reply #45: It's also a bit disingenuous to point fingers at the South for slavery

[XemaSab]

when the South had a rural economy built and structured on latter-day serfdom, unlike the north. Slaves were there to pick the cotton, which they didn't grow up north.

It's more about economics than racism.

On edit: I'm not in favor of slavery here, but I think these bash-the-south threads tend to turn a blind cheek to the legacies of racism and near-slavery in the non-slave states.