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b_b · 1510 days ago · link · · parent · post: Republican senator says ‘democracy isn’t the objective’ of US system
I don't forgive any of the trespasses of the South. But imagine an alternate history where the 3/5ths compromise didn't exist. The North would have been dominated by the South in every election, because slaves were a majority in a number of slave states. Obviously it's an impossible counterfactual run, but things probably would have been worse, not better. But maybe not. It's also possible that the situation would have gotten untenable more quickly, and the system would have fixed itself.