So this means that the percentage of slave holding families was higher in yankee towns and farms than the 6% or so of slave holding families in dear old dixie. Why, shut my mouth. I thought the War of Northern Aggression was about slavery and now you tell me ya’ll had slaves too. I’m just too frazzled to deal with this just now. I think I will go get my smelling salts.
Yup. And years after slavery ended prejudice was just as bad up north. I remember my parents telling me nobody burned crosses in daBronx. Only real estate offices on Pelham Pkwy, Riverdale, Baychester and other "good" neighborhoods that would dare show co-op apartments and townhouses to those "G-Ddamned n****rs" and "Filthy sp*cs", which is what libs call them when they think nobody's paying attention, as Elliot Engel's recent
hot mike incident shows. I grew up a few miles from Nyack. Near our house was a dilapidated old building alongside one of the abandoned Erie-Lackawanna RR tracks. Until the outbreak of WW2 it was used as a meeting house for the local klan chapter, who participated in the infamous Klanbake during the 1924 DNC Convention in DC, brandishing the Stars and Stripes instead of Confederate Flags.