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GOP and using racism to win
[Read the article: Good times for liberals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I suggest Krugman read the Lassiter book on the changing of the white middle class in the South. One of the major reasons that the South has gone to the GOP is that the South is no longer as poor as they used to be. LBJ understood that it was happening and was able to push Civil Rights (which passed because of conservative Republican votes) without fear of losing his voting bloc because he was losing his Southern bloc for other reasons.
The notion that a region of the US, which has always been conservative, became conservative solely because of racism is absurd.
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