Yep. Social programs and taxes were reduced under Reagan to prevent "welfare queens" from abusing the system. Many of the "poor whites" would have also benefited from those very same social programs. Rich people who were taxed less were able to spend that money consolidating power and weakening the government making the government less capable of regulating that very power consolidation. Power compounded and now we have oligarchs. Eventually they purchased citizens united from the supreme court "legitimating" their money as valid political power in a democracy.

We used to have free public pools in this country. They were built out during the 20's and 30's. Most of these were replaced with paid pool access or closed outright during integration to prevent black families from being able to enjoy them as well. There's a racist stereotype around black folk not being able to swim which has been the multi-generational result. Poor white families were negatively impacted as well. But I guess it was worth it to keep the "wrong types" from being able to enjoy things.

Some people said the answer was "no," and some said it was "yes." That's why there was a civil war about 80 years later.

The American Revoltion actually sparked a first round of antislavery laws and court cases, which eliminated slavery in the northern states within a generation. Even in parts of the South, there was increasing questioning of slavery. The US banned the international slave trade. Virginia made it legal (for the first time) to free slaves, and there was a small wave of manumissions. People like Thomas Jefferson admitted that there was something wrong with slavery, even if they were so financially dependent on it that they didn't free their own slaves. Jefferson even drafted a new constitution for Virginia that would have freed anyone born after 1800, but shelved it when he decided it wouldn't have enough support to pass.

Vehement proslavery ideology really developed a few decades after the revoltion.