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Benhurst
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Tue Dec-06-05 01:25 PM
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The old Dixiecrats left us and became Southern Republicans (which I like to call "Dixiecrats Without Sheets")and helped move the Republican party further to the right. I think it is fair to say that Abe Lincoln has been replaced by Strom Thurmond as spiritual leader of the Republican Party.
The new Southern Democrats are now the progressives and liberals (who in days past were Republicans -- "Black Republicans" as the Dixiecrats derisively called them) and African-Americans enfranchised by the civil rights laws of the 1960s.
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