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The defining moment of my visit to New Orleans a year ago occurred in a gift shop. I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit this, but at least it wasn't the kind that sells feather boas and t-shirts with jazz-playing lobsters. I wasn't a sorority girl nursing my hangover at Café Du Monde during Mardi Gras; I was a tourist visiting what used to be a sprawling, stately slave plantation. I was busy mulling over that subtly troubling experience, browsing through the gift shop's bookshelves, when I came to a curious array of volumes. The title The South Was Right! jumped out...

Approximately 90% of black Americans vote only for Democrats. However, a few decades ago blacks were more likely to vote for the party of Abraham Lincoln than for the party essentially founded by the Ku Klux Klan. Democrats by day/Klansmen by night, like Robert Byrd, Bull Conner and George Wallace were racist segregationists who wielded dogs, fire hoses and clubs in the civil rights battles. Democrats won the black vote through grass roots organization, hard work, bribery and political pandering. They allied with civil rights leaders and recruited in black churches. The payoff for this support has been in destructive...

Knock and Drag: Ryan Lizza reveals how Dems got out the black vote Politics/Elections News Keywords: VOTER INTIMIDATION FRAUDSource: The New RepublicPublished: 9 November 2000 Author: Ryan LizzaPosted on 11/11/2000 08:47:29 PST by James Madison follower "Democrats have a simple phrase that sums up their voter-turnout effort: "knock and drag." A crew of paid workers storms through predominantly black neighborhoods and coaxes, cajoles, or browbeats every registered voter to the polls. It's a form of political activity that was well-known in the big-city, white-ethnic machines of the past but has only recently emerged as a key to black turnout."...

Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is now a significant liability for the Republican Party and he should resign his leadership position forthwith, given his deeply divisive remarks at a celebration for Senator Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday. Senator Lott demonstrated terribly poor judgment and insensitivity when he asserted, "I want to say this about my state (Mississippi). When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either". On hearing this particular statement, most Republicans...