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| | Dean's 'New Southern Strategy |
 | | As a result, the symbol Howard Dean used got in the way of his substance, but his substance was on point--and the point was that Southern whites and fls together must focus on their common economic needs: jobs, good schools, affordable healthcare. |
 | | For example, Republicans campaign to "keep prayer in public schools," "to display the Ten Commandments in public buildings," to maintain the words "under God" in the pledge of allegiance, and around the death penalty, welfare mothers, abortion, homosexuality and pornography--all of which play well in the socially conservative Bible belt of the South. |
 | | And as the Southern white Democratic vote continued to decline, Bill Clinton used a two-pronged strategy in 1992-96, appealing to social conservatism and putting a second Southerner on the ticket. |
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