Hey, you know who else was poor and cruelly manipulated by reactionary 1 percenters?
These guys:
After all, only something like 6% of Southerners actually owned slaves. And yet all those proletariats flocked in droves to die for “Slave Power”. Curious.
But hey, like most humans, I guess they didn't want to admit that the world was changing in ways that would harm them and leave them behind.
Wake me when some white industrial workers vote to convict a killer cop, k?