Joe McCarthy Was Right
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« on: November 13, 2018, 11:26:04 PM » |
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By 1920, it was apparent that large cities in the south were more Republican than rural areas (crazy as that sounds) because they contained more northern migrants and upper class residents. As blacks moved into those cities, many of the northern migrant demographic moved into suburbs, turning suburbs Republican. That demographic organized Republican parties in states where they were largely non-existent, so that helped in turning rural whites Republican.
It's not a coincidence that Cobb County, one of the few counties in the deep south to vote for Nixon in 1968, became one of the few white majority counties in the deep south to vote for Clinton. The "ties to the north" demographic.
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