re: #641 GeneJockey
Yeah, well I blame NIXON!
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Seriously, though - you can probably go back to the crushing defeat of Barry Goldwater (or even farther) and Johnson’s embrace of civil rights for the seeds of Modern Neoconfederate Conservatism. That much hatred and ignorance was not going to stay bottled up forever.
Go back to the Civil War.
Elitists and Racists refuse to accept reality.