memphis
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« on: March 09, 2007, 11:20:02 PM » |
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Nobody has yet hit upon the main reason the South remained Democratic for so long, the tariff. There wasn't all that much money or industry down here, so people would rather buy cheap imports than pay more for Nothern manufactured goods. To make things worse, the South has always been strongly anti-tax as well. All that, together with the legacy of Lincoln and suppression of black voting meant that the Republicans were locked out of the South.
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