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The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism by Steve Kornacki
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It was racial equality that tore it apart. Led by a young Minneapolis mayor named Hubert Humphrey, northern liberals pushed a civil rights plank into the Democratic platform in 1948.
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