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Why has Country Music remained so white? What cultural and industry forces kept the genre that so willingly borrowed from blues, gospel, norteño, and mariachi so completely dominated by white artists and tied to white identity?	6900
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 regulated the railroads, forced consistent cargo rates and eliminated price discrimination between long and short haul fares. Would it be fair to describe the law as enforcing a kind of "rail neutrality"? What was the impact of the law?	3783
What was life like for the escaped slave community living in Canada and how well did Canadians receive these refugees?	1239
Why didn't we hang Jefferson Davis and the other architects of the confederacy?	161
Was the Soviet Union's vocal criticism of race relations in the US a net positive for the civil rights movement? Did the value of the international pressure out weigh the fact it allowed critics to tie the movement to communism?	75
What was the real city of Casablanca like in the run up to WWII? What were conditions like for refugees? How would it compare to contemporary migration nexus points in North Africa and Europe?	37
At what pint in the history of the Catholic church could the majority of it's parishioners no longer understand the passages as they were read aloud in Latin during mass?	21
Spotting so called "false flag" attacks is a perennial favorite among conspiracy theorists, but has there ever been a real example of the US government planning and executing a disguised attack on its own people for the purposes of political gain?	19
Why did South Africa decide to develop nuclear weapons when Canada, Australia, and New Zealand all chose not to?	17
What happened to the free black people living in the southern states following secession?	14

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