Local Democratic Party chairman skews civil rights history

Shadow the hound dog is an excellent sounding board for my political column.(Jacksonville, Fla.)—Reading The Florida Times-Union on Monday, I re-read a passage twice before accepting the reporter hadn’t misquoted his source. I even read it aloud to my hound dog to see if he was as confused as I was. The Democratic Party Chairman in Duval County made remarks about 503 Democrats “defecting” to the Republican Party during the general election. Chairman Travis Bridges said, “It’s just a suspicion that a lot of them were ‘Dixie-crats’ who were voting Republican anyway.”

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