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View Poll Results: Gov. McDonnell's Proclamation was ...
Deliberately racist 1 14.29%
A stupid oversight on his part 0 0%
A cynical attempt to curry favor with the GOP base in VA 4 57.14%
Just fine as originally worded. 2 28.57%
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Old 04-13-2010, 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by merrylander View Post
I don't see that much of a moral difference between a slave owner and a carpet bagger.
You cannot be serious...

"carpetbaggers were seen as insidious Northern outsiders with questionable objectives meddling in local politics, buying up plantations at fire-sale prices, taking advantage of poor Southerners and pushing their alien Northern ways on Southern politics."

To wit, "questionable objectives."

Wow. That's equal to slavery...

I'm forced to disagree on this one...
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