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Hart2008

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Fri Feb-01-08 05:06 AM
Response to Reply #96

98. RFK was JFK's right hand man.

One might conclude that RFK was doing the political "dirty work" so that JFK might avoid the political backlash from Southern whites.

Considering that the "solid South" had been the foundation of the Democratic party since Roosevelt, it was not an insignificant consideration. Nixon exploited the dissatisfaction of Southern whites in '68, and the Republicans count the South as their own power base now.

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