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Americans forget: the South was an electoral autocracy until the 1960s. Most citizens didn’t know real democracy, and many white Southerners liked it that way. White Christian nationalism has long held America’s democratic promise hostage. Now it wants to reclaim the country. Read this.
Apr 29, 2025, 4:05 PM
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