Readers sound off on political history, Roe v. Wade and NYCHA

Ossining, N.Y.: Voicers Carmelo Burgos and Richard Garofalo both need history lessons. While Burgos is right that Democrats in 1861 were pro-slavery racists and Republicans were abolitionists, that all changed when Richard Nixon used his Southern strategy to appeal to white people fearful of people of color. He turned the GOP into what we see today: xenophobic bigots.

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