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The New DU. Reply #19: I'd say it started in 1954
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Wed Jan-26-05 09:25 AM
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| 19. I'd say it started in 1954 |
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The day the Supreme Court struck down segregation in public schools.
That was the genesis of the current red/blue state scenario. It was accelerated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. LBJ was right when he said he was handing the South over to the Republicans.
The GOP has played that resentment for all its worth and has been helped along by the gradual shift in population to the South.
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