Politicians have long been aware that the notion chimes deeply with the British sense of self, and is meddled with at one's peril.

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But an opinion piece in the New York Daily News this week by the Reverend Floyd Flake, a former Democratic congressman and a leading practitioner of faith-based community building, warned the leading candidates that there is one category they ignore at their peril and that's white men.

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