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Nascar, Engine of Change,
Finds Itself Changing, Too
Wall Street Journal ^
| August 27, 2003
| DAVE KANSAS
Posted on 08/27/2003 5:04:17 AM PDT by SamAdams76
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:49:44 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Last Saturday night, in the sparsely populated eastern hill country of Tennessee, more than 160,000 people gathered in this small town to watch cars race around a tiny oval. It was another sold-out event for Nascar, a sports juggernaut that now rivals the NFL in popular appeal.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: biblebelt; dixie; nascar; redstate; redzone; sbc; south
To: SamAdams76
NASCAR is the "last bastion of White Supremacy, " according to Jesse J.
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:09:55 AM PDT
by
Guillermo
(Proud Infidel)
To: NormsRevenge; ChefKeith; glock rocks
ping
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:51:53 AM PDT
by
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To: SamAdams76
Roger VanDerSnick, Nascar's managing director of brand and consumer marketing.This guy's name and title say it all about the change at NASCAR over the last 20 years.
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:58:09 AM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Plus de fromage, s'il vous plait...)
To: SamAdams76
I'd be more interested if it involved significantly more than passing and turning left like Grand Prix racing. Ovals just don't really interest me.
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