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[lady_morgaine]

Okay, peeps, so I just got a paper back from a professor saying that I should, in the future, try to avoid the passive "tense

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[lookingland]

"The Blacks' work presupposes that the white South had always been a conservative stronghold; it was simply that realignments within political parties, as Democrats became more liberal and as Republicans (primarily during the Goldwater campaign and Reagan's presidency) became more conservative, especially with regard to race and morality."

is there a typo here? because no, it's not a run on ~ it's an incomplete sentence, actually.

[lady_morgaine]

Oh yes, I didn't type the whole sentence. The rest should read: ". . . encouraged white Southerners to switch allegiances from the Democratic to the Republican party."

[lady_morgaine]

(it was on the next page of my paper; i didn't actually take the time to turn the page.)

[lumen_gentium82]

Sigh. I hate when professors make that mistake. A long, correctly punctuated sentence is not necessarily bad, and it is not the same as a run-on sentence!
"Republicans became more conservative" is my favorite part of the sentence. :)