Nader and the "N" word.From the New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. : "Speaking at a Washington fundraiser to retire debt from his 2004 Presidential campaign, Nader complained that Democratic powerbrokers had kept him off the ballot in such Southern states Southern States U.S. Confederacy government of 11 Southern states that left the Union in 1860. [Am. Hist.: EB, III: 73] Dixie popular name for Southern states in U.S. and for song. [Am. Hist. as Georgia and Virginia--which reminded him of the oppressive Jim Crow laws Jim Crow laws, in U.S. history, statutes enacted by Southern states and municipalities, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between blacks and whites. The name is believed to be derived from a character in a popular minstrel song. that denied African Americans equal rights. 'I felt like a nigger,'" said Nader. |
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