Bruce Bartlett, "Whitewash" (December 2007), The Wall Street Journal
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What about the 200-year record of prominent Democrats who didn't bother with code words? They were openly and explicitly for slavery before the Civil War, supported lynching and 'Jim Crow' laws after the war, and regularly defended segregation and white supremacy throughout most of the 20th century.'
— Bruce Bartlett
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About Bruce Bartlett
Bruce Reeves Bartlett (born 11 October 1951) is an American historian whose area of expertise is supply-side economics. He served as a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and as a Treasury official under George H. W. Bush.
About Bruce Bartlett
Bruce Reeves Bartlett (born 11 October 1951) is an American historian whose area of expertise is supply-side economics. He served as a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and as a Treasury official under George H. W. Bush.
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