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« on: May 05, 2005, 05:19:30 PM »
Quote from: A18 on May 05, 2005, 08:21:34 AM
Why did William Bryan carry the south? It seems like this is when the southern realignment should have occured.

Bryan was, after all, very economically left-wing.

Yes, as was the South... Besides, the Democrats were neutral on segregation at this time, while the GOP was mildly pro-civil rights.
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Rob
Bob
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 6,277
United States
Political Matrix
E: -6.32, S: -9.39
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2005, 05:46:52 PM »
They voted on cultural issues (i.e., hating the GOP as the Party of Lincoln and Reconstruction). The South started swinging to the right economically during the suburban boom of the Fifties, when a great many southerners became affluent for the first time.
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