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To: JohnM who wrote (191872)	6/17/2012 2:52:24 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543847

John, re: "One of the issues that strikes me about calling the south anti-intellectual involves the votes of Gore and Fullbright against the 1964 civil rights act. Both, in my estimation, were quite "intellectual". I can't imagine a version of "intellectual" that would exclude them, particularly political intellectuals. Yet, for political reasons, somewhat different in each case, they voted against the 1964 act." But that's the point, assuming that a vote against the 64 civil rights act was "anti-intellectual," then Gore, who clearly was intellectual, voted against it because the majority of the people who voted him into office weren't. I.e., the south was anti-intellectual. Ed