Answer: The strategy was simple. A demographic wave long-building, still-building would carry the party to victory, and liberalism to generational advantage. The wave was inevitable, unstoppable. It would not crest for many years, and in the meantime, there would be losses losses in the midterms and in special elections; in statehouses and in districts and counties and municipalities outside major cities. Losses in places and elections where the white vote was especially strong.
But the presidency could offset these losses. Every four years the wave would swell, receding again thereafter but coming back in the next presidential cycle, higher, higher. The strategy was simple. The presidency was everything.
When the people of a territory or a region there of have grown to a sufficient population and make their desire for statehood known to the federal government, in most cases congress passed an enabling act authorizing the people of that territory or region to frame a proposed state constitution as a step toward admission.
Long after the United States abolished slavery in 1865, Black Americans still face systemic racism. There are several events in American history that point to the lasting impact of slavery and the Tulsa Race Massacre is an important one for students to learn about. Unfortunately, Oklahoma is the only state that requires the teaching of this devastating historical event in public schools, and the official legislation to make the curriculum universal across the state only began this year.
Abe most likely said that, because if he said slavery was wrong at the time people would disagree and go against him which is very sad but true.
