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Conservative but also a union man, quite the conundrum.
Unions were not always a bastion of fuck. When they were started, they were instrumental in getting things like workers' safety finally brought to the light. As many things in life, they morphed to become something far, far from where they started.
Gotta remember that it was primarily democrats in the south who were against Lincoln and the federal government's imposition of power upon states. Not much to do with slavery; though that is how history has bent the civil war.
Loved All in the Family as a kid!