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Rated by Participant: 5473D6C82753C151E0ACB791F6462C38EBDA168A58DFC735802C34EBCFF3641E
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Democratic Party did not start the KKK https://apnews.com/article/archive-fact-checking-2336745806. After the Civil War, Dems split on North-South lines, with the Southern Dixiecrats forming a splinter and then joining the Republicans through the Southern Strategy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dixiecrat https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/applied-and-social-sciences-magazines/southern-strategy. Trent Lott celebrated Strom Thurmond and segregation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/12/11/lott-remarks-on-thurmond-echoed-1980-words/c613ae1c-e17d-41c1-836a-4dd0741ec7c8/
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