http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4632862.stm
How the South belatedly won America's civil war
A POINT OF VIEW
By David Cannadine
Once a bastion of segregation the American South is transforming, but the Democratic Party which helped sow the roots for this new-found prosperity did so to its own cost, says historian David Cannadine in his weekly column.
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