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Right wingers for gun control?

I'm reading and immensely enjoying Nixonland by Rick Perlstein. I'm learning a lot more about that era's politics, the narrative of which is much more nuanced than I ever appreciated. For example,...

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Nixon's southern strategy

I have heard Republicans claim that segregation was the creation of Democrats in the South.It's true. The Democratic Party was completely dominant in the former Confederate states almost until the end...

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Fair and balanced on the campaign trail, 1972...?

A passage straight out of Jay Rosen's "view from nowhere" thesis, spotted in Rick Perlstein's Nixonland: Every Watergate story was balanced by an imprecation against McGovern. The New York Times...

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Another Nixon and Southern Strategy reference

From The Guardian:The tension between the projection of a modern, inclusive, tolerant party and the reality of a sizeable racially intolerant element within its base pining for the restoration of...

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