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I'm starting to empathize with Texas trying to leave the Union.
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What proportion of Texan's incarcerated population is forced to labour for next to no salary again? There's at least one US state—Virginia (312)—whose official title for prisoners is "Slave of the State". Do you think the other southern states are much more progressive in their attitudes?
Hint: no. Alabama (390), Arkansas (574), Florida (377), Georgia (435), Mississippi (661), South Carolina (302), and Texas (452) also have de facto slavery of their prisoners: defined as mandatory labour for negligible to no wage, with strict penalties for non-participation.
So what are those numbers I've put after all the state names? Those are the incarceration rates per 100,000. Compare and contrast these with the US national average (which, remember, includes the high-rate states): 355. Isn't it mysterious that of the eight states with de facto incarcerated slavery six are over the national average, and three (Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas) have the highest incarceration rates in the country?
Slavery is alive and well in the USA, and Texas is one of its largest users thereof now. So yes, I think the average modern Texan secessionist would be pro-slavery … because they already are.