Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "How the Republican Party went from Lincoln to Trump" video.

  1. There's an important forty years missing from this video, from 1880 to 1920. That would be the age of steel, WWI, and an interesting little thing that doesn't get noticed: at the beginning of that period every artillery shell was driven by gun-cotton which meant seventeen pounds of cotton on average. Uh, they never told us in gradeschool: artillery shells were a whole lot more important than shirts and skirts. Then along came the Haber-Frisch process for ammonia: sheap agricultural fertilizer was revolutionary enough, but the end of half the cotton market was more. Both of these mean a huge demand for industrial labor -- and hence the trek north fo r a lot of Southern blacks. Not good work, Vox -- and I haven't even touched on the Progressive and socialist Parties, which you seem to have forgotten entirely... Not good at all. Somebody call rewrite, OK?
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