If today's Republican Party still represents the Party of Lincoln and northeastern yankees, why won't they denounce the confederate flag like Democrats?
Instead of denouncing it, they claim "state-rights". Since when was the Republican Party the "state-rights" party?
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"Political considerations color the divergent views of presidential candidates on whether the Confederate flag should be moved from the State House grounds.
For Republicans competing in the Feb. 2, 2008, GOP primary, where white voters will hold sway, the flag is a state issue that the candidates are not eager to discuss.
On the Democratic side, where half or more of the voters in the Jan. 29, 2008, primary will be black residents, candidates have no qualms about calling for the flag's removal.
'Each side is playing to its basic constituency,' said Blease Graham, a political science professor at USC."
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2007-07-13
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