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But when the former CA governor ran for President again in 1980, he began his campaign in Philadelphia, MS., where 3 civil rights workers were brutally killed by white supremacists. It was at that sore spot on the racial map that Reagan revived talk about states' rights & curbing the power of the federal government.

In front of a predominantly white audience numbering in the tens of thousands, Reagan proclaimed, "I believe in states' rights".

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