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Re: When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps

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Post by dang »

Svoka wrote: post #180
dang wrote: post #172

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You can't post like this to HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that break the rules this badly, and unfortunately, you've been breaking them pretty badly on several occasions lately. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. I'm sure your strong feeling…

you're right, I'm sorry. I'll just flag comments next time. Thank you for pointing that out.

Thanks for the kind reply. I really appreciate it.

Re: When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps

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Post by mike00632 »

daniel-cussen wrote: post #179
mike00632 wrote: post #141

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I think you're ignoring the mistreatment of Black people in the black belt. For example, recently when Alabama instituted its voter ID laws it closed every DMV in the black belt so that Black people wouldn't have access to get IDs and vote.

Well...the fact plantations were more viable due to soil conditions, does that by itself mean the slaves were treated worse? Could be, could be. Plus I believe rural blacks in the South just want to work good land, which by this point they often own. It's an agricultural area, the most people live on the best land. And further, the weather is more similar to Africa, hotter sunnier more humid. Subtropical. And then pl…

>...does that by itself mean the slaves were treated worse?

No, but specifically targeting Black people for marginalization by doing things like removing their ability to vote does count as being "treated worse".

>... just want to work good land, which by this point they often own.

If you think that the end of slavery automatically resulted in Black people owning land they farm on you need to read about what actually happens.

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