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  2. A brief history of 'wokeness' - AOL

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    Critics of wokeness, such as McWhorter, began to argue that hypervigilance towards racism and other forms of bigotry leads to overreactions that stifle debate. In recent years, “wokeness” has ...

  3. Woke - Wikipedia

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    According to The Economist, as the term woke and the #Staywoke hashtag began to spread online, the term "began to signify a progressive outlook on a host of issues as well as on race". [18] In a tweet mentioning the Russian feminist rock group Pussy Riot, whose members had been imprisoned in 2012, [19] [20] Badu wrote: "Truth requires no belief ...

  4. Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 - Wikipedia

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    Following the 1830 Constitution, Virginia began to change politically under the pressure of party competition. The Old Republican gentry rule supported by their local county freeholders began to be replaced by partisan lawyers of state's rights Democrats and commercially minded Whigs, though the planter elite and their representatives in the ruling Democratic "Richmond Junto" continued to ...

  5. List of former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia

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    In Virginia, beginning in 1871, under state constitutional changes after the American Civil War (1861–1865), cities became politically independent of the counties. An independent city in Virginia since then has been comparable to a county. Many agencies of the U.S. Government consider Virginia's independent cities county-equivalents.

  6. History of taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In addition, there were the state and federal excise taxes. State and federal inheritance taxes began after 1900, while the states (but not the federal government) began collecting sales taxes in the 1930s. The United States imposed income taxes briefly during the Civil War and the 1890s.

  7. Florida’s liberal New College reinstates ‘wokeness’ course ...

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    Florida’s liberal New College reinstates ‘wokeness’ course — but calls movement ‘cult’ with ‘illiberal’ methods Steve Janoski November 14, 2024 at 12:33 PM

  8. Opinion - The cultural contradictions of wokeness — and anti ...

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    Here is the real problem with wokeness: ... A 2023 CNN poll found that 69 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters thought that President Biden did not legitimately win the presidency ...

  9. Readjuster Party - Wikipedia

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    South Side Railroad Depot on Rock Street in Petersburg; it served as the office of William Mahone when his Readjuster Party dominated Virginia politics.. Immediately after Virginia's adoption of a new state constitution and readmission into the United States in 1870, the first state legislature (a majority of whose members had never held political office before), after extensive lobbying ...