You are exactly right! They demand people work for slave-rate wages.
Dems are true to their heritage:
The southern plantations used slaves for the same reasons. Slavery was on the way out. Until the cotton gin permitted BIG COTTON.
"The invention of the cotton gin caused massive growth in the production of cotton mostly in the South. Cotton production expanded from 750,000 bales in 1830 to 2.85 million bales in 1850. . . . the region became even more dependent on plantations that used black slave labor with plantation agriculture becoming the largest sector of its economy."
You are exactly right! They demand people work for slave-rate wages.
Dems are true to their heritage:
The southern plantations used slaves for the same reasons. Slavery was on the way out. Until the cotton gin permitted BIG COTTON.
"The invention of the cotton gin caused massive growth in the production of cotton mostly in the South. Cotton production expanded from 750,000 bales in 1830 to 2.85 million bales in 1850. . . . the region became even more dependent on plantations that used black slave labor with plantation agriculture becoming the largest sector of its economy."