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Thank you. I’m reminded that President Eisenhower sent troops to enforce the integration of at least one school despite the governor of that state being against racial integration.

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Not to mention Kennedy and Johnson federalizing both the Mississippi and Alabama National Guard when Ross Barnett and George Wallace tried to "stand in the schoolhouse door."

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And the “South” has been mad ever since.

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That is why there is so much anti Federal Government sentiment there, and so much insistence on States Rights. They have been behaving like rebellious teenagers since 1865.

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Yea, stark raving mad.

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Yes, guilty as charged, your honor. :-)

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Excellent work, thanks.

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Yes and wasn’t that RFK’s idea to do that, TC?

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Yes, he was ahead of his brother on this.

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Thanks, that’s what I thought.

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