The Importance of Land Reform in the South

In places where the slave economy is overwhelming and dominant, you have political systems organized around hostility to the central government. West Virginia seceded from the rest of Virginia to avoid leaving the Union. A lot of those scallowags that are blamed as awful opportunists who helped the Damiankis destroy the South were actually upcountry farmers who resented being dominated by some fancy bitch in a fucking veranda drinking a mint julep. The entire project was sabotaged by Johnson.