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Originally Posted by TexTushHog
He should probably be the leading Republican candidate for the nomination unless he's deemed too liberal.
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Originally Posted by Whirlaway
The klans roots are deep in the southern democratic party; it was a Republican president who emancipated, a republican majority who overwhelminglty voted in favor of the 1964 civil rights act (by a wide margin), .
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You ever heard of a Dixiecrat?
The Dixiecrats had little short-run impact on politics.
However, they did have a long-term impact. The Dixiecrats began the weakening of the Democratic Party's total control of presidential elections in the Deep South. The 1948 campaign laid the foundation, at first in presidential voting only, for the creation of a two-party region. Finally, the Dixiecrats, especially
Strom Thurmond (Senator from 1954 to 2003) initiated a national political dialog on the dangers of an expansive federal government that threatened "local control."
This theme was picked up by southern Republicans, who became a major element in the national GOP by the 1990s.
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Originally Posted by Whirlaway
a republican party who is trying to protect the unborn from slaughter.
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Don't forget stem cell research, you Repub's are not even for saving lives with old stem cell lines. So save your phoney outrage!