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zipplewrath

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1. You left this part out

Reply to phantom power (Original post)

Fri May 4, 2012, 11:16 AM

May 2012

The cold truth is that Democrats' decision to support women's rights and especially minority rights in the 1960s led to the loss of the Deep South and much of the Rust Belt.

The author is basically making the case that the democrats never should have purged the southern party of the segregationists. Can't say I agree with him. Neither did LBJ, and LBJ has fairly well establish political "chops".

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