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The US south consistently ranks last amongst the states on metrics of wealth, education, quality of life, and so on. Is this wholly attributable to lingering effects of the civil war? If not, what else lies behind it?

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What legal protections, if any, existed for black slaves in antebellum America?

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Historically, how great was the bias against left-handed people?

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When did it become commonly known and accepted among historians in Christendom that history stretches far further than what the bible suggests?

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The US south consistently ranks last amongst the states on metrics of wealth, education, quality of life, and so on. Is this wholly attributable to lingering effects of the civil war? If not, what else lies behind it?	310
What legal protections, if any, existed for black slaves in antebellum America?	8
Historically, how great was the bias against left-handed people?	5
When did it become commonly known and accepted among historians in Christendom that history stretches far further than what the bible suggests?	4