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Dahleen Glanton: Stacey Abrams shows the art of the possible in winning Democratic nomination for Georgia governor

If you were born in the South, you will always be a Southerner.

The way you speak. The values you carry with you. The way you view relationships between the sexes and the races all are a part of your genetic core.

Though your views might evolve over time, there is no getting away from the fact that the mores of the Deep South helped to create the person you are.

As an African-American woman born in a small town in Georgia, I have not always been proud of where I

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