YES. EXACTLY. Today's right-wingers are the political descendants of the proponents of what the abolitionists called the Slave Power--the wealthy slaveholders and the trash that did their dirty work!

And there were few things that SCUM hated as much as free public education! It was NOT a coincidence that NO slave state had ANY public education for anyone of any color until Reconstruction! 94% of the boys in blue could read, write and cipher while only 53% of the Rebs could do so. THINK ABOUT THAT!!!