pbrower2a
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« on: December 09, 2018, 10:52:47 PM » |
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"Rockefeller Republicans" and white people of the Mountain and Deep South have never been politically compatible. Southern white have always been anti-capitalist, and the "Rockefeller Republicans" that ended up drifting into the Democratic party have seen markets and free trade desirable. Southern whites have been statistically hostile to non-white minorities far beyond what the Rockefeller Republicans showed. Carter did well in the Mountain and Deep South (and was the last Democratic Presidential nominee to do so); the transition that took place from D to R among white Southerners reversed slightly for Clinton in 1992 and 1996 (but Clinton lost Georgia in 1996 and no Democratic nominee for President has since won Georgia) and accelerated under the candidacies of Gore, Kerry, and especially Obama. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton won a raft of states that typically were full of Rockefeller Republicans as they started going D.
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