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15. The slave-holding states were trying for that in the 1850s

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #6)

Mon Jan 19, 2026, 01:36 PM

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I'm sure their descendents will be happy with that plan - although I don't see Congress ratifying a bill that would bring a state full of non-White and non-English speaking people into the Union.

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