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With Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond signing off the Senate airwaves in a few weeks, Democrats will look in vain for many more Senate Republicans who have the same good-ole-down-home racial philosophies as Trent Lott. But there’s at least one out there who fits the bill pretty nicely. And I’ve been wondering when someone would turn their attention to him. Now someone has. Don’t miss Sarah Wildman’s new article on the gentleman from Alabama: Jeff Sessions.

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