[okie01]

how deep does the discrimination run?

Ask the car dealers who lost their GM or Chrysler franchise.

Almost all of the dealers who lost out were Republican donors.

Dealers who were Democrat donors skated thru, for the most part.

[sten]

ferreting out every instance would be very damaging for them

[cookcounty]

"Almost all of the dealers who lost out were Republican donors. "

Well, yeah, but almost all car dealers are Republicans...IIRC correctly, this was studied at the time and the report was there were a few Democrat dealers who lost their dealerships, and since there weren't many Democrats with dealerships to begin wit, the ratios were not much different.