Hacker News Reader

Is that a reference to one of the sources of the civil war in the US? Voting rights for disenfranchised (literally enslaved) people?

View on HN

Actually the US maintains a Senate and Electoral College because of slavery, and refuses to abolish them for (supposedly) any and every other reason. These systems allow whites in less populous states to exercise outsized power.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com