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Media Bites Back at Biden

Ink Stained Wretches

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The Truth About Tommy Tuberville

Tim Scott often talks about his grandfather and cotton. Census records are released 72 years after they're collected, so we dug into South Carolina census records that were available. 1890 census records were lost in a fire to close the scap in Scott's narrative. Our research revealed a more complex story. Some enterprising black families purchase property is a way to avoid sharecropping or achieved a measure of independence from white dominated society.

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