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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am curious why DC votes 90 percent for Democrats. Is it that they are government employees and therefore inclined to more government programs? Is it aspirational in that they believe themselves to be “educated” and the Democrats to be the party of the “educated”? Makes me wonder because it seems obvious that one thing that would really improve DC is to break the stranglehold the Democratic Party has on city government.[/quote] Reforms that gave DC residents relative autonomy over the city came after the Great Society legislation. So once the GOP took in the southern white racists as core to the party, it expended DC as a place that would align with that. If the GOP had stayed true to the party of Lincoln, then perhaps things would be pretty different.[/quote]
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