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irisblue

(32,933 posts)
7. yeller, what has he done to be thought of as a southrrn Democrat?
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 08:48 PM
Jan 2017

He was buddies w/ McCain& Leibermann ; I knew/know of him as a slightly repulsive republican.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
8. Except for gerrymandered and Voting Rights legacy districts...
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 08:55 PM
Jan 2017

Graham isn't any worse than a typical southern Democrat - most of whom have been purged after 2008 and replaced by virtually indistinguishable southern Republicans.

It takes a constituency to hold office, and in the south that is fiscal and social conservativism. Regardless of party.

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