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Before Breitbart, there was the Charleston News and Courier

  • Written by Sid Bedingfield, Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Minnesota
imagePolitical reporter William D. Workman speaks at a GOP event in 1962.Courtesy of South Carolina Political Collections, University of South Carolina, CC BY

Conservatives who dislike Donald Trump like to blame the president and his Breitbart cheering section for the racial demagoguery they see in today’s Republican Party.

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