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During the 1988 US presidential election, was Michael Dukakis negatively affected by his non-WASP heritage? Did Bush surrogates attempt to use this against him in their rhetoric (e.g. suggesting that it made him less authentically American than Bush with his Mayflower ancestors)?

by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians

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