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But when you get to the local level, it’s all simply people picking the team they think will help them win the election. A very nice observation. I do believe
by skh 8y ago
But when you get to the local level, it’s all simply people picking the team they think will help them win the election.
A very nice observation. I do believe this occurs at the national level as well. One example being conservative Democratic Senators from the South becoming Republicans.
- lurquer 8y agoAre there others besides Strom Thurmond and Richard Shelby?
- sremani 8y agoRick Perry(longest serving Republican governor of Texas) was a Democrat and in charge of Al Gore Presidential campaign in Texas in 1988. In Texas there was a massive exodus from Democrats to Republicans in 80s and 90s. Attributing that to Nixon's Southern Strategy is over simplifying. Reagan re-aligned politics in US.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> One example being conservative Democratic Senators from the South becoming Republicans. No, those were changes to adapt to national political realignment; they switched because the party they had been a member of stopped supporting the things they wanted.