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Obama Southern Strategy

Lee Atwater and the GOP's Race Problem

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 01.14.2013 | Politics
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Jonathan Weiler

In too many ways, the GOP of 2012 could not plausibly deny that which has become too plain to ignore -- that it is the part of antipathy to difference and social change.

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Sam Stein

Has Obama Created A New South?

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Post-election analysis of Barack Obama's runaway victory has generally settled on one macro-theory: he put a symbolic end to the significance of the S...

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"Whistling Past Dixie" Author: Obama Will Lose The South

NY Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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THE interim between the primaries and the parties' nominating conventions is, according to ancient writ, a fertile period for presidential campaigns t...

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