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I’ve heard people in Iowa agriculture explain away the ‘all white’ thing by saying, well, farming is a generational business (true) and since almost all the early settlers were white (also true), it follows that subsequent generations would also be white. Ok, but why were the early Iowa settlers all white, when 17% of the U.S. was non-white about the time Native American people were being displaced by settlers?
As the title says, it was by design.
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https://riverraccoon.substack.com/p/white-by-design
Andrew Henry /
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