was the slaveowning population

[darklordoftech]

President Andrew Jackson and his supporters definitely fit this description of “liberal racists.” I feel like Jackson would agree with the modern progressive left on a decent amount of issues.

I could see Jackson and his supporters supporting debt cancellation, breaking up banks, and Glass-Steagall, but I don’t think the modern progressive left would care for Indian Removal or ignoring a SCOTUS ruling to achieve it.

[darklordoftech]

The segregationists who represented Southern elites (who were often descendents of slaveowners) were the first to become Republicans, while those who represented poor whites tended to stay Democrats well into the 1980s. Thurmondism is the descendent of the slaveowner ideology, not Wallaceism.