"cottonocracy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1840, Robert Owen, The New Moral World, volume 7, page 1027:",
          "text": "The whole school argue political or national economy as a party question: it is Cottonocracy versus Cornocracy — the nation is to be crucified between them.",
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          "ref": "1855, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Nature and human nature, page 23:",
          "text": "Make a question between our nation and England about fifty desarters^([sic]), and if the ministers of the day only dared to talk of fighting, the members of all the manufactoren^([sic]) towns in England, the cottonocracy of Great Britain, would desert too!",
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          "ref": "1996, Bill Schwarz, The Expansion of England: Race, Ethnicity and Cultural History:",
          "text": "The Lancashire cottonocracy was still waiting for El Dorado, and was quite prepared to believe that the opium trade was delaying its arrival.",
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        "A government dominated by the cotton industry, as in the United States prior to the Civil War."
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        "(US, historical) A government dominated by the cotton industry, as in the United States prior to the Civil War."
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