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ProgressiveEconomist

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2. Didn't Reagan kick off his

Reply to TlalocW (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 16, 2012, 03:16 PM

Jan 2012

1980 campaign at the Neshoba County Fairgrounds in Mississippi? Didn't his podium stand on or near the very spot where the bodies of three famous murdered civil rights workers (Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner) had been found years earlier?

IMO that could NOT have been a coincidence. He and his handlers must have known that they were sending a signal to the completely-white Republican parties of the South: Happy days are here again!

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Ronald Reagan, the governor of California, arguing that King had it coming [View all] kpete Jan 2012 OP

Reagan wasn't tone-deaf. He knew what he was doing, and what he was doing was TlalocW Jan 2012 #1

Didn't Reagan kick off his ProgressiveEconomist Jan 2012 #2

I know it was in Philadelphia, Mississippi TlalocW Jan 2012 #4

and also vindictive law-n-order types, like the ones screaming for blood in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya MisterP Jan 2012 #3

you are so right dana_b Jan 2012 #5