We are truly through the looking glass now…

  • Trojan Ham@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    “Has become,” cute. I think a reasonable argument can be made they became one post-New Deal and definitely after LBJ’s legislation and the greater Civil Rights movement. They certainly were one by the time Barry Goldwater and Nixon’s southern strategy.

    • probableigh@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Yep - happened as soon as racism became a policy cornerstone and the rest of the part just shrugged and got in line.