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IF DOUG JONES becomes the first Democrat in a quarter of a century to win a Senate seat from Alabama on December 12th, the state will have followed his own political evolution. The grandson of a coal miner and a steelworker, Mr Jones was born into a family of Democrats. But when the South went Republican, after Lyndon Johnson ended segregation in 1964, most of the Joneses went too. “Most everybody voted Republican more than they voted Democrat in recent years,” reflects the avuncular 63-year-old, during a recent campaign ...
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