>Indeed.
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>I was a poll-watcher for the dems in Nashville (grad school). The dem machine sent in the drunks with a slip of paper that had two names on it: Nixon and Gore (senior). I knew by 2 pm that the election was going to Nixon, as the Southern base had defected. Not that integration and race had anything to do with it, mind you. <sigh>
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Wow.. Hank.. you were present at a key turning point in US Politics. Maybe one the most important since the civil war.
Some people that the shift also had an economic motive as one-time Northeast abolitionist repubs moved south to escape northern unions south and exploit the poor white labor market and mask it by fueling racial hatreds.

This man was a silent mover behind the scenes and made billions at it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Milliken