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To: thames_sider who wrote (67601)	10/16/2008 6:40:16 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

"No, because most of the crowd were (presumed to be) Democrats, they simply wouldn't notice a signal. But it might ring a little bell for those with ears to hear, as the saying goes..." Here's were bein' a dang ferinner leads you astray. ;-) In 1984, you could probably fit all Mississippi Republicans in a 1984 Dodge Caravan minivan. The crowd was Democrats because that's pretty much all there was in the American south until Reagan started changing minds. When I was growing up and first voting in North Carolina just a few years before that, many offices on the ballot had no Republican candidate at all. Only an unopposed Democrat. The same was true across the south. Virtually everyone was a Democrat. The fact that the audience was all southern Democrats should have made them MORE attuned to the "little bell" of racist code words, not less so.