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Yupster

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Sun Sep-14-03 08:46 PM
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21. Ummm - there were no Republicans in the south

before the Civil War. Lincoln didn't even appear on the ballot in 1860 in Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, N Carolina, Tennessee or Texas, and South Carolina still didn't have popular elections for president. The S Carolina legislature just named electors as per the Constitution.

No, the vast majority of southerners were Democrats from long before the Civil War (minus the Whigs for a while) until the 1960's at least, probably 1980's.

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