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[raging moderate]

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I am glad my Republican mother is not here to see this. She was from the old line Republicans, descended from abolitionists (not famous ones, just humble but true ones).

My mother was so sweet. She couldn't go to college because of the Great Depression, so she gave herself sort of a college education at the public library, reading Descartes and Bertrand Russell and John Stuart Mill. She told me stories about her Methodist great-grandparents who had had Black houseguests sometimes. She loved Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson, and she would have LOVED Barack Obama.

I will never forget the bewilderment on her face as the Dixiecrats took over the Republican party, as she told me, "I guess I'm voting for the Democrats this year."