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Art_from_Ark

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5. OK, that was around 1968

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #4)

Tue Nov 3, 2015, 06:00 PM

Nov 2015

I was a little kid, then, too, and everyone in my family who could vote was for WinRock. I had WR66 and WR68 pins, and maybe they're still at my mother's house. Anyway, that was quite a year-- Arkansas voted for a progressive Republican governor (the last time there was a progressive Republican governor in Arkansas), a liberal US Senator, and a racist presidential candidate.

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I don't remember that Art_from_Ark Nov 2015 #3

I think when he was running for his second term. I was a little kid and my dad was LiberalArkie Nov 2015 #4

OK, that was around 1968 Art_from_Ark Nov 2015 #5

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