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 @af82bac8 Yes, from Reagan's ugly racist rhetoric about welfare queens and lazy "bucks" — some of it delivered right in Philadelphia, Mississippi, whose significance he knew well — through Atwater, Gingrich, the whole Southern campaign, there has been a relentless attempt of the Republican party to make people think black and brown when they think welfare. When the facts tell us something entirely different….