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Originally Posted by japanjapan 2. “A few (blacks) took quite literally the coming of what they called Jubilee, thinking that it would put the bottom rail on top.”
What's the meaning of the idiom "put the bottom rail on top"? |
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I'll answer 2. and leave 1. for another person.
In that context,
put the bottom rail up is in reference to 'the dispossession of whites of their power and position and their replacement by blacks and other non-whites.'
Sorry. I've misplaced the source.