others, those who could not accept the destruction of slavery and the loss of the planter class’ dominance over their little fiefdoms, fled to Brazil to start it all again.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederados
really not looking forward to becoming a place where white supremacist ex-Israelis relocate to en masse to make their new project, based on whatever heinous feature they find most appealing about their genocidal settler state.
In 1857, after Oregon voters had voted for statehood, they subsequently called for a constitutional convention.
The emergent constitution contained 185 sections, 172 of which were taken from various other state constitutions, with the additions primarily being racial exclusion or finance related.[14] The document enshrined an exclusion law into Section 35 of the Bill of Rights within the Oregon State Constitution.[15] The article read as follows:
No free negro or mulatto not residing in this state at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall come, reside or be within this state or hold any real estate, or make any contracts, or maintain any suit therein; and the legislative assembly shall provide by penal laws for the removal by public officers of all such negroes and mulattoes, and for their effectual exclusion from the state, and for the punishment of persons who shall bring them into the state, or employ or harbor them.[15]
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In 1925, the Oregon legislature proposed the formal repeal of Section 35, adopted as House Joint Resolution 8 (1925). The measure was referred to Oregon voters as a 1926 ballot initiative which was approved with 62.5% in favor.
some of them, those who could not accept the notion of living amongst so many freed slaves, fled to the PNW to create a white supremacist utopia where black people would be legally and formally excluded. https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2020/06/oregons-founders-sought-a-white-utopia-a-stain-of-racism-that-lives-on-even-as-state-celebrates-its-progressivism.html
others, those who could not accept the destruction of slavery and the loss of the planter class’ dominance over their little fiefdoms, fled to Brazil to start it all again. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederados
really not looking forward to becoming a place where white supremacist ex-Israelis relocate to en masse to make their new project, based on whatever heinous feature they find most appealing about their genocidal settler state.
Shout out to Oregon. Fuck Oregon.
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Floridians won’t really notice a difference, except maybe when the Cuban and Israeli Mafias start openly feuding.
I always wondered why the PNW was so fucking fascist in areas
CW: historical racism
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