@HankHunter13
I read observations by Historian and Professor Heather Cox Richardson last night. She studied Civil War history by reading the entire Chicago Tribune and New York Times for the years of the Civil War. She says, “The story that jumped out at me was entirely different than the story I read in the textbook... I just wrote down what I saw... in 19th century, and possibly always, America’s always been racist, so racism is constant,” Richardson said. “You can’t use it to explain historical change. What explains historical change during the Reconstruction years … is the way white Americans in the north thought about class.” I think about how Blue Dog Democrats blatantly enable Republican ideology and obstructionism, and how that is about class warfare. [bcheights.com]