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Jesse Helms Reconsidered

By John Grooms
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) | August 21, 2008
Jesse Helms' career, I see now, was simply an exercise in nostalgia, a pining for the good old days and a worldview rooted in the gallantry of the Old South. Jesse, I fear, was probably one of the last remnants of the wonderful way of life he fought to the last to preserve.
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Tags: politics, Jesse Helms, race relations, the South

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