Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

What made it hard for the South to win the war isn’t so much that the Confederate population was small as that a very large share of the Confederate population was enslaved people who wanted them to lose & worked for Union victory. — PolitiTweet.org

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Rewatching Ken Burns’ “Civil War” documentary; in the very first episode he says “the odds against Confederate victory were long” and cites the North’s greater wealth and population. In reality national liberation movements routinely succeed against greater asymmetry. — PolitiTweet.org

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You can’t take to the hills to fight an insurgency struggle if your objective is to live in a fancy plantation house and take advantage of other people’s labor. — PolitiTweet.org

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