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Quotes from The United States: An Experiment in Democracy — Carl L. Becker

1873–1945 United States

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Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.

The United States: An Experiment in Democracy (1920)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carl L. Becker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.