We traded a poverty of goods for a poverty of soul... bad bargain.
Poverty of soul, yes.
Frankly, the Democrats did less harm to blacks when they enslaved them on their plantations than they have been doing to them since the time of LBJ, when they started corrupting them, rewarding them for breaking up their families and going on welfare, buying their votes, patting them on the back for their rap music and racism, and all the rest of it.
I wouldn’t choose to be a victim of EITHER Democrat plantation. But it’s better to be oppressed than corrupted.