Liveries, Nooses and the Battle For NASCAR

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NASCAR has a reputation. It’s a sport for southern good old boys who drink beer, wave Confederate flags around and are casually racist and sexist because that’s the way things are.

NASCAR itself was founded in 1947 and held its first race in February, 1948, on the beach. Yup. The beach, at Daytona. This was, of course, the kernel of what eventually grew into the sport’s season opening…