that is a very odd comment?  Doughfaces was a fairly common political
term in the 1850s; surely one of insult, but hardly on the scale of a
racial insult.  After all, being a member of a particular race is not
something anyone has any control over; but Buchanan or Pierce were not
born as proslavery northern democrats ("northern men with southern
principles" is the best definition of a doughface); they chose that
path. Doughface is the proper description for them.

Paul FInkelman

Joan Logan Brooks wrote:
> Whose prejudice is showing now?
>
> FYI, Prof. Finkelman, "doughfaces" is as insulting as the "n" word.
>
> Joan Logan Brooks
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