What does the phrase “snowball ‘liking’ effect” most likely mean, as used in paragraph 12?

What is the snowball effect in psychology? The Snowball effect is a long-term process that starts from an initial state of minor differences and builds upon itself, just like a snowball rolling down the hill, becomes larger and larger.

Explanation:

from my own personal expirence food stamps has alot this makes it eaiser so we can affod bills and so we can life a better lifestyle not needing to worry about paying actual money to buy food since most people spend 100-300 dollars a month on food so this alot so we can afford other bills and other stuff we need

confederacy: supported slavery, believed states should be able to nullify federal laws, supported low tariffs

union: everything else