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Can Artur Davis Win in Alabama?

One city block in Montgomery, Ala., tells almost everything there is to know about the challenge facing Rep. Artur Davis in his bid to become the state's governor in 2010.On one corner of Dexter Avenue stands a monument to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America. On another stands Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, home of the pulpit where Martin Luther King Jr. ministered for nearly six years. Casting a shadow over both is the state capitol, an enormous white Greek-revival building where Davis assumed the presidency of the Confederacy, where Gov. George Wallace took the ...

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