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rampart

(202 posts)
Sat Dec 10, 2011, 07:34 AM Dec 2011

lbj thought that he had lost the south for a generation

i was a child then and now have great grandchildren. how many more generations?

nixon also recognized the opportunity for a "southern strategy" that has endured for decades.

nevertheless, we are on the correct side of history, and the segregationists will be forever wrong.

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