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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17294985

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." - Abraham Lincoln

"I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world." - Abraham Lincoln

"The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world." - Karl Marx

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

lol. Like most populations, there’s variations.

For example, Texas today. It’s dominated by republican politics; despite the cities being fairly liberal.

Or Minnesota- mostly dominated by democratic politics, despite the outstate being very MAGA.

But read your statement again:

In fact, when Lincoln won the presidency in 1860, he wasn't even on some of the southern ballots.

Also not that the Republican Party stated in Wisconsin, (in the north.)

Also, check out this electoral map of the 1860 election:

Looks familiar, doesn’t it? Aside from most the western states not being, ah, states, that is.