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Originally posted by crockett
 what's you talking about willis?
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http://www.laweekly.com/ink/printme.php?eid=54248
"It?s important to remember that Reagan, like Nixon, both stirred up and reaped gains from the white backlash of the ?60s. Reagan emerged as a national conservative leader when he campaigned for Barry Goldwater in 1964. Like Goldwater, he opposed the Civil Rights Act of ?64, which had abolished segregation in public facilities."