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« on: January 16, 2005, 12:35:06 AM » |
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Plaquemines Parish was the personal stronghold of Dixiecrat baron Leander Perez. Perez delivered a massive vote to whoever he happened to favor. The 1952 result was so Republican because Perez supported Eisenhower. Plaquemines became wealthy through oil and gas deposits, and the GOP supported local control of those assets.
Perez was not above producing a little vote fraud for his candidate, but mainly he delivered the parish through his personal power. Plaquemines was a closed society- later, during the civil rights movement, reporters considered it a "dangerous" place to ask questions in.
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