Yeah, it's bull all right: those crackers you complain about - rightly, I hasten to add - were bigots first, last and always, and Democrats by convenience. It's too bad you tried to misdirect, but corruption and bigotry are two different animals. Big-city machine politics has about as much relevance to your previous point as udders on the bull you invoked in this one.
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago during the Daley Era. I lived in dowtown Philly while Frank Rizzo was mayor. I've seen that kind of bull first-hand, but I'm not so narrow of mind to blame the behavior of the power-hungry on their choice of party registration.
By the way - Washington D.C. is a Southern city. So is Philadelphia, though it won't admit it... but spend a summer in either one. Or a winter, for that matter - they have no more idea about what to do when it snows than Atlantans do.
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