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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After WWII, the warm weather states boomed in population.  But AL/MS/LA didn't.  You had a South Atlantic sunbelt (Carolinas, Georgia, Florida) and the Southwest running from Texas to Southern California.  Why the gap in between?[/quote]

Republicans keeping the masses uneducated

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You appear to be the uneducated one.  Those states were 90% democratic until the 1980s.  [/quote]
They were the legacy Democrats who opposed the 13th, 14th, 19th Amendments. They were the legacy Democrats that LBJ said after signing the Civil Rights Acts lamented to a friend that they have lost the south for a generation and that they had delivered the south to the Republicans for a very long time. Indeed, he was correct. Those Democrats pre-1965 became Dixiecrats and eventually Republicans. They were your Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond's, Evan Jenkins, and more.

Interesting fact, Black Americans who were allowed to vote were Republicans because it was the party of Lincoln. Not just the party of Lincoln, but the then Republican party pushed for Emancipation and Black politicians during Reconstruction period. Then the Republican Party gave the world Barry Goldwater who believed in Jim Crow, anti-Civil Rights, and anti-Black any and everything. It is during this time that white racists Democrats became Republicans and Black Republicans became Democrats. And ain't much has changed in the last 60 years.  [/quote]

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