A nation of people who are free. And by "people" we mean "people who could vote." So, you, know, not the blacks.

03/01/2010

A nation of people who are free. And by "people" we mean "people who could vote." So, you, know, not the blacks.

Victor Davis Hanson in the National Review discusses American Exceptionalism.

Perhaps it would be better, when speaking of an early rural [U.S.] society, to talk of an absence of peasantry: We had no concept of a large underclass of only quasi-free people attached to barons as serfs; instead, yeomen agrarians were the Jeffersonian ideal, a nation of independent farmers rather than peasants

Lol! Sorry slaves!

H/t to C. Friedersdorf

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