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2016 Postmortem

Garrett78

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4. Racism has been a significant factor since at least Nixon and his Southern Strategy.

Reply to Jim__ (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 3, 2016, 05:56 PM

Dec 2016

It's called dog whistling, and Paul Ryan absolutely engages in that. Trump was more overt than anyone since George Wallace, which garnered Trump the endorsement of the KKK, but voting based on racism is nothing new.

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If neither party runs an out in the open racist for president [View all] boston bean Dec 2016 OP

"a lot of poor people are born lazy." Openly racist language? Jim__ Dec 2016 #1

Missing the point. boston bean Dec 2016 #2

Racism has been a significant factor since at least Nixon and his Southern Strategy. Garrett78 Dec 2016 #4

Wishful thinking Uponthegears Dec 2016 #3