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What was the reaction to Michael Dukakis's Greek heritage in the 1988 US presidential election? Was his status as the first major-party nominee visibly not of Western- or Northern-European descent seen as a milestone in the erosion of WASP dominance of national politics?

by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians

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