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Well, I'm working on one of my essays and there's one article I'd like to quote but first I need to make sure that the sentence I want to use really means what I think it does.
Even though I live and study in English, it's not my first language so every once in a while I run into vocabulary problem.
Anyway, the article says something like this:
"Many African-Americans are today arrayed with the democratic party."
I'm not too sure what "array" means in that context. I looked it up in the dictionary and I can't find a definition that makes sense. The article was written in 1900 so maybe it's just older English...
Am I right to assume that it means that the African-Americans were in favor of the democratic party?
(I'm just worried that maybe it means the opposite and I'll look stupid for quoting it wrong)
Even though I live and study in English, it's not my first language so every once in a while I run into vocabulary problem.
Anyway, the article says something like this:
"Many African-Americans are today arrayed with the democratic party."
I'm not too sure what "array" means in that context. I looked it up in the dictionary and I can't find a definition that makes sense. The article was written in 1900 so maybe it's just older English...
Am I right to assume that it means that the African-Americans were in favor of the democratic party?
(I'm just worried that maybe it means the opposite and I'll look stupid for quoting it wrong)