CONFEDERATES HAD DIFFERENT PRIMARY CONCERNS...:

The war against babies: a review of Fatal Misconception: the Struggle to Control World Population by Matthew Connelly (Elizabeth Pisani, 01 May 2008, New Statesman)

In the concluding chapter of his voluminous history of global population policy, Matthew Connelly reveals the Fatal Misconception of his title: "The great tragedy of population control, the fatal misconception, was to think that one could know other people's interests better than they knew it themselves." Connelly, a historian at Columbia University, is scathing about what he sees as a giant conspiracy led by rich, pale people to control the number of poor, dark people in the world. But his meticulously researched book maps a landscape of intertwined and sometimes conflicting motivations which undermine any conspiracy theory of population policy.

...but all fought to preserve slavery.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 1, 2008 7:31 AM