If the majority of the people living in a community share the same culture, language and ethnicity it is most likely that they will dominate the political landscape. Having a government where the majority of the people get what they want the rights of the minority are deprived of what they want.
When the majority of voters are ignorant and uninformed they tend to vote in favor of issues that benefit them personally,, rather than on what is in the best interest of the general welfare.
Every President of the united States until the election of Abraham Lincoln except John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams owned slaves and even Abraham Lincoln, the "Great Emancipator" believed in the superiority of the white race.
;Chief Justice John Marshall and Roger B. Taney owned slaves and considered slaves to be property.
Five of the nine Siupreme Court Justices, plus two of theJustices from Free States voted that negroes did not have the Constitutional right to be citizens of the United States.
In 1860 more than 60 members in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives owned slaves.
The Governors of 14 of the 34 States in 1860 owned slaves
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Virginia Governor John Letcher 3 Slaves
Georgia Joseph E. Brown 19 Slaves
Alabama Andrew B. Moore 33 Slaves
South Carolina Francis Peckins 276 Slaves
North Carolina John Ellis 18 Slaves
Miississippi John Pettis 24 Slaves
Florida Madison Perry 24Slaves
Arkansas Henry Rector
Tennessee Isham Harris 20 Slaves
Marland Thomas Hicks 8 Slaves
Texas Sam Houston 12 Slaves
Missouri Clyde Jaksson 38 Slaves
Kentucky Some Slaves
Delaware No Slaves
Louisiana Thomas Moore 226 Slaves
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