Canellos column 11/25/04

Friday, November 26, 2004

The original red-state political strategy dates back to 1968, the first presidential election after the full implementation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. From the end of Reconstruction until that point, the South had been reliably Democratic, the anchor of the electoral majorities of Franklin Roosevelt and other Democrats before and after him.

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