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Article: How South Carolina Passed a Lottery.
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- Campaigns & Elections
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- August 1, 2001
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The recent Alabama experience worried pro-lottery forces in South Carolina, an even more conservative bastion with strong fundamentalist opposition
THE CONCERN WAS palpable when Democratic Gov. Jim Hodges called his pollster, Washington's Fred Yang, and me the day after Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman's lottery referendum failed in October 1999.
Here was Alabama, a more Democratic-leaning state than South Carolina. A state with dog tracks and labor unions bordering casino-rich Mississippi voting "no" in overwhelming fashion against the creation of an education lottery. Siegelman and Hodges both broke the GOP stranglehold on the South in 1998 by winning ...