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7. I hope the ghost of Lyndon Johnson

Mon Jun 22, 2015, 04:27 PM

Jun 2015

haunts their sleep for a decade or two. No one did more to defang the racist southern Dems than he did. No one.

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Fox News Gets Desperate and Calls The Confederate Flag The Flag Of The Democratic Party [View all] babylonsister Jun 2015 OP

"southern Strategy" one more of Nixon's legacies rurallib Jun 2015 #3

The Republicans and the Democrats switched sides since then. -none Jun 2015 #4

that right there might get them to toss the dixie swatika out the window Romeo.lima333 Jun 2015 #6

I hope the ghost of Lyndon Johnson hifiguy Jun 2015 #7

Then I expect Fox to be in the forefront calling for its removal . . . Journeyman Jun 2015 #8

Bottom line, Wellstone ruled Jun 2015 #9

It sounds like the right may be ready to surrender on this issue. drm604 Jun 2015 #13

The right caved today, sort of. babylonsister Jun 2015 #14