KKK crucial to building the South’s enduring Republican majority, study finds

[guno]

study just released reinforces what we all knew

The Ku Klux Klan played an active and enduring role in steering southern white voters away from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, according to a new study.

The white supremacist group resurged to prominence in the 1960s as a reaction to the civil rights movement, and its violent extremism inflamed racial division and polarized communities for generations, according to the study published by the American Sociological Review.

KKK crucial to building the South 8217 s enduring Republican majority study finds

 

[CrusaderFrank]

KKK was founded by Democrats and was a Democrats only Party.

 

[Ravi]

It must have worked because all southern states are now controlled by Republicans.

 

[guno]

KKK was founded by Democrats and was a Democrats only Party.

until 1964 when the civil rights at was passed

 

[007]

 

[Geaux4it]

A political cartoon depicting the KKK and the Democratic Party as continuations of the Confederacy

 

[MXdad]

Sen. Robert Byrd (D) in office 1959-2010
Prior to that, KKK Leader

 

[guno]

 

[guno]

 

[Statistikhengst]

KKK was founded by Democrats and was a Democrats only Party.

apparently, you missed the very OBVIOUS memo that the Klan switched parties when the Democratic Party went from being the mostly white, very conservative party of the 1850s through the 1950s, to the diverse, Liberal party of the 1960s to the present. Meanwhile, at the same time, the GOP went through a mirror image transformation.

Now, if it is too hard for your brain to comprehend this historical fact, I will forgive you. And then send you back to the clinic.

 

[Statistikhengst]

KKK was founded by Democrats and was a Democrats only Party.

until 1964 when the civil rights at was passed

The year in which 5 core southern states went for Right Wing extremist Barry Goldwater (R), in spite of the fact that incumbent LBJ (D) beat him by more than +24 points nationally.

 

[Geaux4it]

A kinder, gentler Ku Klux Klan? 'We do not hate anyone,' imperial wizard says

by Alicia W. Stewart, CNN

(CNN) –“All we wanna do is adopt a highway,” said April Chambers, secretary of the North Georgia chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. “We're not doing it for publicity. We're doing it to keep the mountains beautiful. People throwing trash out on the side of the road ... that ain't right."

For many Americans, the Ku Klux Klan has been a symbol for terrorism, racism and evil in America, synonymous with burning crosses, lynchings and hooded men.

Even today, the name evokes vociferous discussion about the rights of a local group to adopt a highway in North Georgia, which was recently denied.

Overheard on CNN.com: Reader 'feeling a bit dirty' for agreeing with KKK on litter pickup

But is the latest effort to adopt a highway an introduction of a new era of a kinder, gentler Klan or merely an effort to gain attention? After more than a century and a half, what is the Ku Klux Klan today?


"We're not racists," Chambers told CNN Monday. "We just want to be with white people. If that's a crime, then I don't know. It's all right to be black and Latino and proud, but you can't be white and proud. I don't understand it."


A kinder gentler Ku Klux Klan We do not hate anyone imperial wizard says 8211 In America - CNN.com Blogs

 

[USNavyVet]

I just love listening to the lefty posters try and tell everyone how they're not the racists.

 

[Stephanie]

If the left/Democrats didn't try and change history they would only an ugly one, like the KKK

 

[guno]

 

[Geaux4it]

As long as there is this, the KKK will be around

-Geaux

Man Punches Pregnant Woman In Brutal Knockout Game Attack VIDEO - Yahoo News

Man Punches Pregnant Woman In Brutal ‘Knockout Game’ Attack

A 34-year-old Brooklyn woman who is six-months pregnant was laid out cold in a vicious “knockout game” attack.

The violent assault was caught on video which was published by the New York Post.

The victim, Jannatul Ferdous, was walking with her sister in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood Thursday when 33-year-old Willie Stephens slugged the pregnant woman with one single blow, knocking her unconscious.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

study just released reinforces what we all knew

The Ku Klux Klan played an active and enduring role in steering southern white voters away from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, according to a new study.

The white supremacist group resurged to prominence in the 1960s as a reaction to the civil rights movement, and its violent extremism inflamed racial division and polarized communities for generations, according to the study published by the American Sociological Review.

KKK crucial to building the South 8217 s enduring Republican majority study finds[/QUO


What a crock of shit. Ann Richards was the governor of Texas from 91 to 95 and Texas was a a dem state for years before that.
What changed is the dem party. They went so far left Southerners bailed on em,nothing more to it than that.

 

[AmericanFirst]

KKK was founded by Democrats and was a Democrats only Party.

until 1964 when the civil rights at was passed

A republican bill, LBJ had to sign it or lose a big voting base.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

KKK was founded by Democrats and was a Democrats only Party.

until 1964 when the civil rights at was passed

\

"Wrong, Peckerwood!""

 

[JFK_USA]

Yeah because the parties NEVER change. I like how republicans think that posting this that means you are going to convince idiots that the parties haven't changed at all yet history shows that they really have.