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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Sam who wrote (258433)8/20/2014 4:13:21 PM
From: Metacomet   of 542086
 
Missouri was a border state back in the day,

This die was cast nearly two hundred years ago..

There is a visceral fear of reprisals among the descendents of those who held negro livestock, in all of the slave states

..this includes everything south of Mason-Dixon and Missouri

Missouri Compromise

Controversy over whether Missouri should be admitted as a slave state, resulted in the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which specified that Louisiana Purchase territory north of latitude 36° 30', which described Missouri's southern boundary, would be organized as free states and territory south of that line would be reserved for organization as slave states. As part of the compromise, the admission of Maine (1820) as a free state was secured to balance Missouri's admission as a slave state (1820).
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