re: #252 Anymouse 🌹

And what’s more remarkable about that piece in The Atlantic was as noted by a commentator to the original tweet, the GOP the same year also had civil rights language in their own platform. Both parties at the time we pretty much on the same page.

Then the GOP started pandering to racists under Goldwater, Nixon, and Reagan to gain a block of votes both parties had abandoned.

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And George Wallace was there to take up the slack where the parties “failed to address their concerns”