ScienceRocks
Democrat all the way!
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I read everything you wrote as it pertained to our discussion. I do not follow everyones discussion.
Those conservsative southerners you call Dixiecrats were DEMOCRATS and remained so.
There is conservatism and liberalism to some degree in both parties.
And Ann Coulter was right as my link illustrated that Republicans and Democrats were battling. The Democrats were against the civil rights act and the Republicans were for it.
The southern conservative wing of the Democratic party began to defect after Truman's integration of the military, as it became clear that the party's previous blind eye towards Southern Democratic racism was ending.
Well now I'll concede a few defected to the Republican party..... but very few.
Now lets look at your "dixiecrats" preceded by the democrats and founded in 1948.
Succeeded by democrats.disolved in 1948.
Ideology:
- States' rights
- Racial segregation
- White supremacism
Show me a race that didn't follow the same line of thought? Why hate on whites?