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Most worrisome is the disproportionate impact of these laws on minorities: 13 percent of African American men were prohibiting from voting Nov. 3, and in Alabama and Florida, where ex-offenders lose the right to vote for life, one-third of black men are disenfranchised...
Eight years later, James Carville is James Carville, Zell Miller is retiring as Georgia Governor with an 80% approval rating, and the lottery is being hailed as the secret to the Democratic Party's astonishing rebirth in the South. Last week in Alabama and South Carolina, two states that had been trending hard toward the G.O.P., Democrats ousted sitting Republican Governors by single-mindedly pledging to follow Georgia into the scratch-and-win business. Political consultants predict the issue will dominate next year's legislative session in Tennessee and the Governor's race in North Carolina in the year...
Politically, the lottery solves a problem that has vexed Southern Democrats for years. The public schools in states like Alabama and South Carolina are badly underfunded and consistently score near the bottom in national rankings. But tax hating is one of the South's cherished pastimes. Carville's epiphany was that if Democrats could portray the lottery as a tax-free way to improve education, government spending could once again become a winning issue. And the Republicans, hostage to the Christian right's antigambling fervor, would be painted into a corner...
...sent more than 330,000 students to college, has in a few short years attained sacred-cow status in the Peach State. The Democratic and Republican candidates to succeed Miller, each of whom once opposed a lottery, practically fell over one another to pledge HOPE's continuation. In Alabama and South Carolina, Democrats Don Siegelman and Jim Hodges both promised scholarship programs virtually identical to Georgia...
...marchers departed from the parking lot of achurch and proceeded across a bridge. At the otherside Alabama state troopers were waiting...