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KY_EnviroGuy

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5. The Southern strategy working at its finest.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Jun 10, 2019, 01:29 PM

Jun 2019

Someone please dig up Spiro Agnew and ask him how this was supposed to work out.

For a refresher, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

I can't read that entire article because I watched it all happen starting in the 60s and it still makes me ill......

Anti-tax Rethug governors and legislatures have created wage and health care slavery in all red states.

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