Flynt, the historian, said Trump “does best almost exactly where George Wallace did best, and for many of the same reasons.”
Alabama hosts next Republican debate, the state that gave the GOP a road map to Donald Trump
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Historian Wayne Flynt, a former Auburn University history professor and the author of more than a dozen books, including cowriting “Alabama: A History of a Deep South State, said that slavery was the “key to the Civil War" but he said white southerners sometimes resisted that because they don't want to admit their ancestors would fight to maintain slavery.
Proposal in Alabama to up protection for Confederate statues
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