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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
What irony.
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Not really irony. The Southern Democrats mixed racism with populism. Racism was widespread, so the majority condoned institutional racism.
With the Civil Rights Act, most of the bigoted *******s got fed up and changed their party allegiance.
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