TLIAD: We Shall Get it Right Next Time

I can very easily believe that a Southern-based labor party in the 1870s would support white supremacy, although I'd also imagine that some unions will have to hold their noses to take part and that others will opt out altogether.

Okay, well, I think you and I are actually mostly in agreement re: Southern labor. And that things were indeed a little more complex than I let on(I did realize that segregation did occur in unions, btw, I just forgot to mention that).

BTW, I apologize if my last response seemed a tad muddled and clunky; I don't like to admit this but sometimes it's just hard for me to word things really well. Not to mention I was just plain tired. :eek:
 
With this set-up, even if some poor whites in the North are willing to vote Labour, one wonders who poor, left-inclined African-Americans will turn to (presuming that Labour doesn't go racially egalitarian for quite a while) later on. I suppose it could go in one of two ways: the Republicans (trying to keep African-American votes) turning to a gentler form of social conservatism, or a Republican backlash against socialist ideas that leads to Americans having only the choices of socialism + racism or a strongly libertarian and anti-government, socially conservative Republican Party.

A great and clearly scrupulously researched TL, though I confess myself rather sad at the direction it's going in.
 
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