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eppur_se_muova

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5. Yeah, I got that in AL in the Sixties. It was all about Yankees imposing tariffs on foreign goods...

Reply to ProudLib72 (Reply #3)

Sat Nov 17, 2018, 01:08 AM

Nov 2018

... so Southerners couldn't buy cheap British crap instead of expensive Yankee crap. States rights and tariffs on foreign goods. Oh, and especially that right to hold slaves. That was in there somewhere.

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