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We used to be a blue state, although were somewhat dixiecrat.
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Yeah but if you really knew your history like you claim to, you would know that the Democratic Party back then was waaay different than the one today as well as the fact that it was only dominant in the south from about the end of the civil war to LBJ and his civil rights agenda, which caused them to split into the “dixiecrat” party ..
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Calling someone a "blue dog" democrat is just another way of calling someone a dixiecrat.
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And he was right as ensuing elections have shown utilizing the 'southern strategy'. .with that crazy dixiecrat Zell Miller being the most recent bombastic defector.
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What really rubbed LBJ wrong was that it lost his kind of Southern Democrat, sort of a dixiecrat really.
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The reason the Dem took the GE was because GA was still pretty dixiecrat.
Franken Camp Claims He's Gaining On Coleman, But Big Challenges Remain 2009
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Buchanan seems to be trying to relive his golden memories of the dixiecrat strategy – very, very sad. . .
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Lott said that the country would have been better off had Thurmond won on the dixiecrat platform in 1948.
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That's not racial politics; it's good ole dixiecrat politics, and I'm glad that young people like you are keeping the old traditions alive.
Archive 2004-02-15 2004
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its still in the news today because of issues like this post. the theory is the repub base is essentially what the dixiecrat base was, only they are now voting against their economic interest because of divisive politics (first among them race) deployed by repubs to get the former democrats to vote forthem.
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