Why did Dukakis lose Maryland?

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From 1968 to 1992, white suburban voters were convinced that legions of crack-smoking black men were going to randomly burst through their living room wall like the Kool Aid Man and methodically take turns raping their wives and daughters before carrying away absurdly heavy CRT television sets.

1988.

[hopper]

From 1968 to 1992, white suburban voters were convinced that legions of crack-smoking black men were going to randomly burst through their living room wall like the Kool Aid Man and methodically take turns raping their wives and daughters before carrying away absurdly heavy CRT television sets.

A good portion of the white population still thinks that today, unfortunately enough.

I'm white and I don't think like that at all.