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Re:"RIP Good Times": Silicon Valley's Cuban Missile Crisis by anamax on Thursday June 07, 2012 @06:02PM (#4081584)
> The Republicans were saying the same sort of stuff in 1929.

In 1931, Republicans in general and Hoover in specific were pushing stimulus and restrictions on production. FDR campaigned against these measures but continued them after he was elected. (And no, congressional Repubs did not oppose Social Security's enactment.)

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Re:"RIP Good Times": Silicon Valley's Cuban Missile Crisis by roguecoder on Thursday June 07, 2012 @08:50PM (#4082101)
That's because before the Southern Strategy the Republicans were to the left of today's Democrats.
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