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In reply to the discussion: Dixie's long reign of terror has finally ended. [View all]malaise
(267,811 posts)7. True but he did win Florida
after he reached 270
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Superb analysis and writing. It took an African American to drive a stake
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#6
I think you are calling southerners racists as if racism does not exist in the rest of the country.
Tennessee Gal
Nov 2012
#25
270 is irrelevant to FDR's era because the total number of electors was 531?
Spider Jerusalem
Nov 2012
#31
OK, I'll say it. It is true that there are many excellent progressives in the South...
Barack_America
Nov 2012
#27
It's not the message that one disagrees with, it's the patronizing tone.
Tommy_Carcetti
Nov 2012
#45