With Joe Biden in the White House it’s worth pointing out Delaware’s experience with the last wave of unrest, there was a 1967 riot in Wilmington so in 1968 when stuff was heating up after the MLK assassination the Dixie-style governor attached the National Guard to the police and maintained the city under soldiers-in-the-street occupation for most of a year until his successor (who had defeated him in an election where the issue was very salient) was installed in office
And that Delaware’s role \u2013 including in the form of Senator Joe Biden \u2013 in America’s midcentury Civil Rights crisis is as a bridge between the Dixie South and the industrial Northeast
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