Why did Stevenson win Las Vegas? (1956)
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« on: February 23, 2016, 01:41:22 AM »
Southern transplants? 
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« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2016, 04:51:57 AM »

That's part of it, yes.  Many of the founding casino operators came from Galveston and Hot Springs.  For that reason, Vegas was still deeply segregated in 1956.  Desegregation happened pretty much on track with the Deep South, bizarrely for a city way out west.
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