• spider@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    more like benefiting rural folk both times

    And they’re more likely to vote during the midterms anyway.

    Also, it didn’t really backfire on the segregationist Democrats (aka Dixiecrats) who did it; they eventually migrated to the Republican Party.