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Voters in both Alabama and California reject race-based lawmaking

By Quin Hillyer
Published November 6, 2020 6:27pm ET
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Voters in both Alabama and California reject race-based lawmaking
Citizens of two states defied stereotypes on racial issues in very good ways in statewide referendums this week. Throughout the South, the stereotype of Californians is of people hopelessly obsessed with racial grievance-mongering and payback for it. Among the bicoastal supposed elites, the stereotype of Alabamans is of racist yahoos still pining for the days […]

Citizens of two states defied stereotypes on racial issues in very good ways in statewide referendums this week.

Throughout the South, the stereotype of Californians is of people hopelessly obsessed with racial grievance-mongering and payback for it. Among the bicoastal supposed elites, the stereotype of Alabamans is of racist yahoos still pining for the days of Jim Crow. Neither stereotype is fair.

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