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Mainstream, Vol 63 No 24, June 14, 2025

How America

Saturday 14 June 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc]
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The Long Southern Strategy:
How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics
by Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields

Oxford University Press:
Pages: xxiii + 534
ISBN-10 ? : ? 0190265965
ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-0190265960

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For a long time, Democrats had painted the entire southern United States blue, winning the hearts of the white majority in the sprawling region. There was a reason for this. The Democratic Party supported the South