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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (340037)6/11/2007 2:33:37 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1577782
 
"Yes, it might have been. Blacks were not allowed to vote until 1870:"

And, yet, they had that right before then in all of the South. Oh, not because of the good heartedness of the Southerners. The fact of the matter is that blacks in the North had only marginally more rights than they had in the South before the war. And arguably less afterwards.

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was restricted to the South for a reason. If he had made it true for the rest of the country, he would have made problems for himself.

And he had a full plate.

It wouldn't surprise me if Booth wasn't under the sway of an 1860's equivalent of Rove. Because no one served the interests of the Republican party of the day than Booth.
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