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LiberalArkie

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29. I think the party was hoping to bring these suburban housewives into the Democratic Party.

Reply to CrispyQ (Reply #28)

Fri Apr 12, 2024, 12:48 PM

Apr 12

I look at it now as a lost cause. The suburbs were originally the white flight people who wanted to be away from those "OTHER" people. They formed their own schools and churches and because they were in their own little bubble they all ended up thinking alike.

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