AZrailwhale
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That "free" homestead land was raw prairie. It was about as far from prime farm land as you could get. The vast majority of those farmsteads failed and often the homesteaders died from starvation, cold or hostile Indians. The few that survived earned every penny they have made and provide the food that you eat today. Just like the settlers that moved into the raw wildernesses of New York state, Connecticut, Ohio, Kentucky and most of the other eastern and mid-western states and developed land from nothing but savage infested wilderness into producing farmland. I don't know where you live, but unless it's New York city or New Orleans, at one time your home was a howling wilderness that mostly white people bled and sweated to turn into civilized cities and suburbs.So let me put it to you this way since you seem to believe in what's called Teflon history.
There are approximately 230 million whites living in this country. 93 million live on homestead land given out 150-160 years ago. That land is an asset that accumulates wealth. 99 percent of all homestead land given by the government during the Homestead Act went to whites. 246 million acreas to 1.6 million white familes. That's free stuff given to whites by the government. Free stuff that approximately 40 percent of all whites living today still use to increase wealth. So you see, this old stale tired that was in the past line is without merit when you consider the facts.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1045&context=csd_research"]The Homestead Act: A Major Asset-Building Policy in American History