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To be fair they would have rather had the whole black person, as the point was to get more representation. The non-slave states wanted 0% of slaves to count and slave states wanted 100%, so 60 is where they settled. The whole "conservatives think blacks are 60% of a person" trope is misunderstood. Slave owners of the time thought that blacks, or at least slaves, were 0% of a person for all purposes but getting them more votes in the House, more votes for president, and more share of tax apportionment, for which they wanted the whole person.Lol you're talking about a group of people (conservatives, not Republicans) that enshrined 3/5ths black people into the constitution...