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The End Of The Solid South ?
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Thanks to Barack Obama, 2008 could see the end of the Republican Party's grip on the states of the old Confederacy: [I]n Southern states with large black populations, like Alabama, Mississippi and Virginia, an energized black electorate could create a countervailing force, particularly if conservative white voters choose not to flock to Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee. Merle Black, a political scientist at Emory University in Atlanta, predicts "the largest black turnout in the history of the United States" this fall if Mr. Obama is the nominee.
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