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Yet every libertarian claims that the civil war had nothing to do with slavery, and so the the confederate flag is not a symbol of slavery but of state rights. Or is this more evidence of Rand Paul diluting his inner libertarianism and saying whatever is necessary to get him the nomination. Say what you like about Ron Paul, but at least he wasn't an opportunist and said what he believed.
Interestingly, whether the civil war did or did not have anything to do with slavery did not stop the reinstitution of slavery after the civil war. See "Slavery By Another Name" by Douglas Blackmon, or the PBS documentary of the same name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAJLSpUXawE
It seems that slavery was an irrelevance once the southern states were firmly back within the union, or presumably the northern industrial states had subjugated the southern states to the new economic industrial order.
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Yet every libertarian claims that the civil war had nothing to do with slavery, and so the the confederate flag is not a symbol of slavery but of state rights. Or is this more evidence of Rand Paul diluting his inner libertarianism and saying whatever is necessary to get him the nomination. Say what you like about Ron Paul, but at least he wasn't an opportunist and said what he believed.
Interestingly, whether the civil war did or did not have anything to do with slavery did not stop the reinstitution of slavery after the civil war. See "Slavery By Another Name" by Douglas Blackmon, or the PBS documentary of the same name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAJLSpUXawE
It seems that slavery was an irrelevance once the southern states were firmly back within the union, or presumably the northern industrial states had subjugated the southern states to the new economic industrial order.
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