Episode 475: Mammoths, McDowell, & Making Sense of White Supremacy with Robert P. Jones
The Holy Post
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The Relationship Between Eschatology and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy
There was some studies done that found states and even counties that had more slaves in the 18 sixties report more racist attitudes among their population to day. What's the link? How do you explain owning slaves a hundred and 70 years ago, whatever it is now, is still impacting the views of residents of geographic locations in the united States to day? Ye, i mean, it's, it's book called deep roots, and it is a hard, number crunching, quantitative study. So m they actually look at, what they're really doing is a looking at slave holding percentages in each of those counties, for every county in the country,. And then looking at a attitudes to day,
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