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Posted by Lonnie T. Shoultz Now, most white people in the state (except the teacher's union) vote Republican and the Blacks (plus the teachers union) vote Democratic. As a result we have two Democratic Congressmen and five Republican Congressmen. Both of our US Senators are Republicans. Since earlier this month, the governor is also a Republican. If the national Democratic Party had simply stopped all of this two state party crap back in the 1980s, Alabama would probably still be a Democratic state. Nobody likes to vote for delegates and have some national organization tell you that your vote only counted as a half vote because we're going to allow one-half of the ones who lost to attend and one half of the ones who won not to attend. That's just dumb and now the Democrats are a minority and apparently trying to become either a permanent minority or extinct.
on 11/28/2002, 4:05 am
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conservative. Until 15 years ago, all of us in the south were Democrats as were our fathers and grandfathers before us. Then, the Democratic Party felt it had to be a party of "all people" but it determined what percentage those people could be of the party. Here in Alabama we have two Democratic Parties that both elect delegates to the national Democratic events such as the Presidential Nominating Convention. There, a "credentials committee" then must rule on which groups' delegates get to attend the convention as "crendentialed delegates" and which ones are designated "alternates." The "crendentials committee" always allows half of the Black Democratic Party delegates to have crentials and half of the other Democratic Party's eleceted delegates to have credentials. What a joke.
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