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How air conditioning created the modern Republican Party
- ryanelkins 17y agoI wonder how much AC has impacted larger national government as well. I mean, have you been in DC in the summer? Not the kind of place I'd want to spend large amounts of time in a big room with a bunch of old fat guys.
- balding_n_tired 17y agoCute, but really kind of dumb, unless you can trace the Civil Rights Acts, the refusal of the Democratic national conventions to seat all-white delegations, etc. to air conditioning. With obvious & rare exceptions such as the Bush family's displacement from Connecticut (The Grapes of Cash?), the Republican Party in the south is made up mostly of the descendants of the Democrats who dominated southern politics all those years.