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user-inactivated · 2712 days ago · link · · parent · post: The racist foundation of the modern Republican party
The white workers they sought to protect from the beginning kept them from falling apart as everyone expected this year, it seems.[The Whigs'] northern supporters are really afraid that the growing number of slave states would have too much political influence, which they feared could really hurt free white workers economically.... The former Whigs in the north form a new party that will fight against letting slavery expand any further. They call it the Republican party.