The forces of Progress and Equality are celebrating in Delaware, a State which overwhelming rejected Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and voted with the South for much of its history. The Delaware Senate has voted 12-9 to approve gay marriage, sending the bill to Governor Jack Markell, the State’s first Jewish governor, who supports it. Politico...
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As we have discussed on SNN, the northernmost extremes of the shared agrarian civilisation of the Caribbean and the South that many nineteenth-century Southerners viewed in terms of a ‘Golden Circle‘ (a term we have revised for historical and contemporary Southern nationalist use) in some cases extended beyond the traditional or commonly understood North-South boundaries....
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The State of Delaware was regarded as a border State before Lincoln’s war against the South. It had almost no slaves – 91.7% of its Black population was free in 1860. By that time, the largest slave owner in the State owned a mere 16 slaves. However, like the rest of the South, Delaware...
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