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Arkansas

RazorbackExpat

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3. Thanks for that explanation

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 21, 2025, 08:55 AM

Jan 21

Back in the '70s, I thought the state was finally getting it together and moving out of the Dixiecrat era. In the previous decade, we had elected a progressive Republican as governor, as well as an anti-war Democrat for Senate, but the state just couldn't pull itself away from its segregationist roots when it voted for an avowed segregationist in George Wallace for President. If Bobby Kennedy had lived and gotten the nomination, I believe the state would have voted for Bobby.

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