Donovan
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« on: October 07, 2004, 09:01:13 PM » |
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If the Republicans ever nominate a minority (Hispanic or Black) or if Bush or another Republican president grants D.C. full statehood. South Carolina used to vote 97 to 3% Democratic, until Kennedy did civil rights stuff.
If you think that DC will turn Republican, you have no sense of reality. Actually, I think the Republicans got about 50% of the vote from 1952 onward.
Republicans started to creep back into competition in the South by 1952. In the Upper South, Eisenhower actually won a number of states. The reversal was completed (more or less) by Goldwater '64.
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