From cotton. Thousands of workers, dock workers and people in the shops, people who worked in the hotels and gambling houses and brothels where plantation owner would come up and treat new york city as their home away from home during the summer months. Everybody was in various ways dependent on maintaining the cotton trade, which means they sought in their best interests to maintain the plantation system and slavery. New york workers also feared that if the four million mill enslaved in souse are south were subtly set free they would flood up north and take their jobs away. The big irony there is that the 12,000 free blacks in new york city, the exact opposite was going on. White workers took their jobs from them, froze them out of the unions, so there one really going to be a problem with fighting for the white white guys fighting for jobs again black workers. So because of cotton and because of to the ties and that long and Enormous Economic tie to the cotton south, the majority of,
Morning. Then had a rally in walterboro before heading here to sumter. Hell also be part of an msnbc townhall tonight as well. Some of his supporters here in Springmaid Beach resort in myrtle beach. The event startrt about a half republican primary this saturday. A fast moving disturbance to our north will give us some clouds and a sprinkle this skies will clear my midday, highs lower 60s. High pressure comes in thursday through the weekend. Well start out cool thursday with highs near 60 then warm to the 70s by the weekend with sunny to mostly sunny skies. Overnight lows within the last hour, she officially announced her endorsement of the florida senator. Our Billie Jean Shaw is there and has more. Billie jean . Senator rubio walked off his campaign bus with gov. Haley and the applause and the cheers became louder. Gov. Haley opened the event by taking about her childhood, growing up as an indian in bamberg and the struggles she faced. Her lifestyle was similar to rubios stating he u
Warmer through the weekend friday sunday partly cloudud highs in the upper 60s to middle 70s by sunday. Changes coming as it looks wet and cooler starting monday and much of the next week. Trending in decision 2016 news this morning president ial candidate ted cruz the Republican Campaign trail. The latest nbc newswall street journal poll finds cruz the leading candidate among likely Republican Voters just two points ahead of donald trump with florida senator marco rubio in 3rd place. Ted cruz, marco rubio and ben carson were 3 candidates tackling the topics on the minds of voters, just days before a crucial primary. All 3 were on stage last night for a town hall hosted by cnn in greenville. Karin caifa was there. Ben carson, marco rubio and ted cruz took questions from audience members, as well as moderator anderson cooper. Some audience members undecided voters. Some leaning in one direction, but not entirely committed to a candidate in saturdays primary. Handling National Security a
Robertson counties. Primarily its a wet and slushy snow as some rain continued to mix in overnight and now this morning some of it melting on impact. However, be cautious for minor accumulation of 1 to 2 on some rural surfaces. Closer to the city could have some slushy roads in portions of Clermont County especially side and secondary. Otherwise the other story remains fog which has reduced visibility all night and will continue to be very dense this morning. With some wet pavement and the light mix that fell i cant rule out slick areas near the metro but nothing wide spread. Temperatures today will reach 36 degrees and we stay dry early this afternoon before a rain and snow mix will set up this evening. Any accumulation would be minor and as of now very scattered. Overnight that will taper as temps drop to 28 degrees. We are dry on wednesday with a high of 37 degrees. Then sunny and slowly warming the second half of the week with upper 50s by friday and and mid 50s this weekend. Carst
Have your umbrella, not a washout by any means but a slight chance of a shower or storm this afternoon. I want you to be prepared. Shorts, short sleeves and well into the 80s and another one start. Patchy fog around, 60s, 70s this morning. 60 degrees azalea park, orlando, 68 degrees of azalea park. Bushnell, sank after harmony holopaw, kissimmee st. Cloud in the 60s, 65 in melbourne. Clouds around this morning, clouds increasing throughout the day and here is the planet, by noon we will be here near 80. Clouds popping up in this afternoon and evening rain chances not too high. 20 percent chance of a popup shower or storm and look how warm we are again. Near 87 by the time we hit 4 00. Who has the better chance of storms in the forecast and we will get into the front moving through this weekend. We had a hit and run crash reported i 4 westbound and deland before state road 44 here is a shot in the area does not look to be causing issues and they have been able to get to the side and sho