Pork Chop Gang
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title:
Pork Chop Gang
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The Pork Chop Gang was a group of 20 Democratic Party legislators from rural areas of North Florida who worked together to dominate the Florida legislature, especially to maintain segregation and conserve the disproportionate political power of mostly rural northern Florida. The origins of the name are obscure, referring either to a purported divide in the state's cuisine or to the legislative pork that the members of the Gang were allegedly awarding themselves. They were active primarily from t
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Group of North Floridian Democratic legislators
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_Chop_Gang
date created:
2015-07-15T14:07:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T22:09:12Z
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