The Other Side of the Story (w/ Michael Kazin)
Know Your Enemy
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Yhat Pull Connor
In 19 forty eight. strom therman ran as a dixie crat and one a number of states in the south. And henry wallace ran for present under the progressive party banner. So already you kind of had a challenge to the new order from the left, but also for more conservative white southerners who were blanching at the party's racial turn. The tragedy of american politicsnd not just a, democrats right in the centre of it, that intuitial, working class party. That's what, you know, we would like. But once that becomes impossible, it's very difficult to keep that broad coalition together.
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