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Moving the conversation forward --- our plan in Georgia

by: bruce.dixon

Wed Sep 29, 2010 at 09:13

Georgia Republicans are real Republicans. I live in Newt Gingrich's old district, where Dems don't even run for state rep and senator, let alone Congress.

Our white Democrats are Dixiecrats. Think John Barrow from Savannah. Think Roy Barnes, a past governor and current candidate for that same office who nearly doubled the number of prison beds in only four years, and whose biggest brag last time he ran (and lost to a mope who promised to and did bring the Confederate flag back to the state capital) was his championing a two strikes law in the state senate under his Dixiecrat predecessor Zell Miller.

Our elected black Democrats aren't much better, most of them.

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