Mitchell J. Landrieu asserts New Orleans as an important starting place for the future removal of Confederate monuments in the United States. What reasoning does he use to make this point?
A. New Orleans’ role as a major city in the state with the most Confederate monuments in the country marks the removals as the beginning of a crucial but difficult endeavor.
B. The contrast between the city’s current diversity and its significant history of slave trading marks the removals as profound alterations to public representations of history.
C. The important battles that were fought in the city during the Civil War parallel the removals with the war’s ideological struggles.
D. The city’s troubled civil rights history gives the removals significance as continuations of the struggles of civil rights leaders.
B. The contrast between the city’s current diversity and its significant history of slave trading marks the removals as profound alterations to public representations of history.
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A. decreases the voter turnout B. increases the voter turnout C. does not affect the voter turnout D. adversely affects the presidential election
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a. High poverty rates b. Low levels of educational attainment c. Frequency of voting opportunities d. A politically conservative voting population e. Texas's traditionalistic political subculture
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A. about $100 million. B. about $400 million. C. about $100 billion. D. about $400 billion. E. over $1 trillion.