1.0 link 36644 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-stoller/the-bar-fight-primary_b_36644.html When Ronald Reagan announced his Presidential run in 1980, he did it in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the town where three Civil Rights workers were killed. He faced Jimmy Carter in the general, a conservative white evangelical who had built up the military budget, deregulated the airlines and was set on more deregulatory moves, and engaged in a program of fiscal austerity in non-military areas. It was in this election though that Reagan pulled working class whites into the Republican camp,...

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