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« on: July 13, 2016, 09:22:32 AM »
The single most salient reason, after some urban areas in the South like Dallas started voting for the GOP, is that when blacks began to be allowed to vote, the "Tory" Democrats could no longer control the Dem primary results in the South, and thus over time decamped to the Pubs.
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