re: Neil Young's 1970 hit single "Southern Man"

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Let's not act like the south wasn't ground zero for most of the horror show.

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When virtually all black folks lived in the South? Sure. As they moved north? Revisionist history at best. Again, just like in the antebellum period, Yankees act like they had gleaned no benefit from slavery. They were 100% fed by slavery and relied heavily on southern products such as cotton for their industry. It's a fact that is rarely admitted, but it doesn't make it less so.

Hell, a northern textile worker in 1855 was more dependent on slavery, than a poor southern dirt farmer working his own 40 with his sons and no slaves. But, let's keep up this pretense that Southern white folks (rather than the love of money as the Bible tells us) are the root of all evil.