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To: Sam who wrote (230252)	8/28/2013 5:47:06 PM
From: Ron	Respond to of 543205

-their descendants the Teabaggers- Now that you mention it.. I'd say John C. Calhoun was an early forerunner of the Koch brothers: en.wikipedia.org Not to ignore the North: this summer marked the 150th anniversary of the New York City draft riots: en.wikipedia.org

To: Sam who wrote (230252)	8/28/2013 10:38:30 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 543205

Their descendants have been in charge for the last 40 years and is why we are a decade or more behind the rest of the western democracies and find ourselves in the mess we are in e.g. unions busted, 65th in inequality, Bush's destruction of the country, blatant racism, voter suppression, war on women and gays and on and on. en.wikipedia.org In American politics, a Southern strategy refers to an appeal to racism against African Americans in the Southern United States to gain political support for a Republican candidate. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Though the " Solid South" had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery before the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (triggering the Dixiecrats), the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation.