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"Democracy, it has been said, functions best when politics does not directly mirror deep social divisions, and each side can accept the victory of the other because both share many values and defeat does not imply “a fatal surrender of … vital interests.”"

South Carolina’s School for the Deaf and Blind, initially integrated, established separate classes after the white faculty resigned in protest;
thus, “color was distinguished where no color was seen.”

had no idea that appalachia has consistently fought tooth and nail against the rest of tennessee & the south to get to the right side of history. how convenient that the history in this book really isn’t taught to tennesseeans now considering it would redirect their rage toward capitalism/elites instead of toward their poc neighbors.