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DNAvinci

@RickiTarr
Most of the basis for wealth in the US Midwest is simply how murderous your great grandparents were until 1880 or so.

4 Mar 2023 at 3:12 | Wall-to-wall | Open on genomic.social
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N. Gates, J. T. G.

@dnavinci @RickiTarr my wife and I were pondering our ancestries and she only had to go back to the First-Generation Californian to realize her family would also have participated in genocide

4 Mar 2023 at 15:41 | Open on friendsofdesoto.social
Chris

@dnavinci @RickiTarr Well beyond the midwest. All of the Mountain West, SW, CA and PNW as well. See the Homestead Act.

4 Mar 2023 at 17:55 | Open on mstdn.party
DNAvinci

@chrisboulanger
Yes, I was discussing the homestead act as well.

It's a fine point, but I'll discuss it.
The Midwest is (modestly) separated from the mountain west and the coast by the lack of any other exploitable resource. With few exceptions, murderously gotten farmland is the only thing of value.

Mountain and coastal colonizers had other horrors to enact, but they weren't strictly limited to blood-for-land.
@RickiTarr

@chrisboulanger
Yes, I was discussing the homestead act as well.

It's a fine point, but I'll discuss it.
The Midwest is (modestly) separated from the mountain west and the coast by the lack of any other exploitable resource. With few exceptions, murderously gotten farmland is the only thing of value.

4 Mar 2023 at 18:51 | Open on genomic.social
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