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Mike Hendricks

Mike at Night

Mike Hendricks recently retires as social science, criminal justice instructor at McCook Community College.

Changing of the guard

Friday, January 20, 2017

When I was growing up, our two major political parties were nothing like they are today. Most of who we are we learn from our family and I was no different. They were very active politically so I became enamored with politics too and at a very early age. I remember how political persuasions were in the 1950s. As most of you know, I grew up in Arkansas, a solidly Democrat state that hadn't voted for a Republican for President in over a hundred years. It was a part of the solid South, made up of all the southern states who were just as Democrat as Arkansas was. Republican states could be found in the north and the northeast, including Democrat bastions today like New York and Massachusetts and were led by progressive politicians like Nelson Rockefeller and George Romney.

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