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STATEMENT BY EDWARDS IN RESPONSE TO DEAN'S COMMENTS ON SOUTHERN VOTERS

ALGONA, IA: Senator John Edwards (NC) released the following statement in response to Governor Dean's remarks on southern voters:

I have lived for fifty years in the South. And the working men and women, white and African-American, Governor Dean speaks of are my family, my neighbors, my classmates, the people who fought together for equality and dignity in every part of their lives. What Governor Dean may not understand, is what the Confederate flag means to us in terms of oppression and too often violence. If we embrace those who display the flag for the purpose of heralding that oppression, because we think they share some economic common ground with us, we then fail to share the moral common ground with the Southern Democrats, white and African-American, who have been the core of the Southern Democratic Party.