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Southerners credit political shift to Reagan
Florida Times-Union ^
| Monday, June 7, 2004
| MATT GALNOR
Posted on 06/07/2004 1:53:42 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Once a Democratic stronghold, Northeast Florida is now, without question, Republican country.
When local politicians and experts discuss that drastic shift over the past 20 years, they point to one familiar face -- that of former President Ronald Reagan, who died Saturday at 93.
"He's the one that started that movement, here and in the whole state," said Bill Taylor, who chaired the state Republican Party from 1974 to '80. "He had the faith, and it was contagious."
Reagan, politicians and observers say, made it acceptable for local officials to be Republicans. The former president's message of keeping money in people's pockets and strengthening the military resonated in the South and in Northeast Florida with Democrats who saw the national party drifting further to the left.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: dixielist; realignment; ronaldreagan; south; southernvote
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To: Zionist Conspirator
"You mean along with your not knowing English and your leftist belief that driving the "foreign devil" out of the "occupied homeland" will result in a utopia? National sovereignty usually just replaces one set of morons with another."
So national sovereignty is a bad idea by your thinking. What should the US do then? Give it up to some one world government, huh, ZC? I hope for a direct answer, but expect an evasion.
BTW, one of the most common mistakes people like you make is seeing everyone's actions in terms of their own motivations that drive them. IE: wrongly assuming the rest of the world is just like oneself. The second most common mistake is failure to realize that one has become the subject of humor on a thread.
To: stand watie
"sadly,you seem UNable to do more than throw SILLY, childish, stupid tantrums & accuse me of being childish. it is the NATURE of a scalawag to do that, just as it is the NATURE of a serpent to slither."
Right now I'm laughing at ZC over the fact that several
days ago he said he was through posting about it. They always do that. It's apparent their nature also includes an aversion to being truthful, even in simple things like that.
Now I'm wondering which of the trolls of the DU-In-Blue gang is really "Pitcavidge" and which is really "Crawfish". :)
To: Wampus SC
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06/09/2004 2:13:26 PM PDT
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stand watie
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
To: Wampus SC
i suspect that the "ZC-troll" doesn't have enough mental ability/agility to understand your post.
he/she seems only capable of tantrums & name-calling, which is fairly typical of scalawags & southHATERS.
free dixie,sw
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06/09/2004 2:16:23 PM PDT
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stand watie
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
To: stand watie
"i suspect that the "ZC-troll" doesn't have enough mental ability/agility to understand your post."
Yeah, I know he can't, but that's OK. There are plenty of people able to understand the implications of *his* post. I think some true colors got shown there.
To: Wampus SC
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06/10/2004 9:18:05 AM PDT
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stand watie
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
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