Uhhh okay LBJ was a Southern Democrat from Texas, and in his younger days in the House in the 1930s and 40s he was a reliable pro-segregation vote en bloc with the "Southern wing" of the Democratic Party
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When Stoller talks about "the last effective generation of economic populists" he means segregationist Dixiecrats, like the kind LBJ started as
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He openly said this in his big viral article about "Watergate Babies" while trying to talk around it ("their relationship with segregation was complex")
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Haha, I swear to you I was just wondering whether this was a Matt Stoller alt account.
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