Part (1) The True Democrats!

[ABikerSailor]

The Republican party of today is nothing like the Republican party of Lincoln.

Check out the below link on the Southern Strategy that changed things greatly in the 1970's.

In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in the Southern United States by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3]

The mid-1960s saw the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and a push for desegregation. During this period of social upheaval, Republican Presidential candidates Senator Barry Goldwater[4][5] and Richard Nixon worked to attract southern white conservative voters to their candidacies and the Republican Party.[6] Goldwater won the five formerly Confederate states of the Deep South (Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina) in the 1964 presidential election, but he otherwise won only in his home state of Arizona. In the 1968 presidential campaign, Nixon won Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee, all former Confederate states, contributing to the electoral realignment of white voters in some Southern states to the Republican Party. After federal civil rights legislation was gained via bipartisan votes, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965, more than 90 percent of black voters registered with the Democratic Party. The VRA provided tools to end their decades-long disenfranchisement by southern states. Hundreds of cases have been litigated to change election systems, such as at-large voting, that have prevented even significant minorities from electing candidates of their choice for city and county positions.

As the twentieth century came to a close, most white voters in the South had shifted to the Republican Party. It began to try to appeal again to black voters and rebuild the political relationship that had lasted through the 1920s, though with little success.[6] In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a national civil rights organization, for exploiting racial polarization to win elections and ignoring the black vote.[7][8]

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[JQPublic1]

The Conservatives:

Conservatives fought to expand slavery while Liberals fought to end it.
Conservatives passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Conservatives supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
Conservatives supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
Conservatives supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
Conservatives opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
Conservatives fought against anti-lynching laws.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Kleagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
Conservatives passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Liberals.
Conservatives declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican liberal, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
Conservative President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Conservative of Alabama.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Liberal efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
Conservative Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Conservatives supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
Conservatives supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
Conservative public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
Conservatives were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
Conservative Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
Conservative Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
Conservative Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
Conservative Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
Conservative President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Conservative and a supporter of racial segregation.
Conservative President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Southern Conservatives opposed desegregation and integration.


Conservatives opposed:
The Emancipation Proclamation
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
The Civil Rights of 1866
The Enforcement Act of 1870
The Forced Act of 1871
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1960
The United State Civil Rights Commission


The Liberals:
Liberals enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Conservatives.
Liberals founded the HBCU's (Historical Black College's and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Conservatives.
Liberals pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
Liberals fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
Liberals pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
liberal Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
liberal Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Conservative President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
Republican liberal and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.

Great points. The intellectually dishonest will try to conflate "Republican" with "conservative" even though when the party was founded it was Liberal. There's no more Liberal an utterance than "all men are created equal", which is what Abolition put into practice.

Couple of quibbles though, FDR couldn't be called a 'conservative' and Black's Klan membership wasn't known at the time (nor did Klan membership mean then what it means now). And there's no evidence Truman was in the Klan either. Truman desegregated the military and made so much noise about "civil rights" in his first (and only) Presidential campaign that the conservative wing of the DP walked out and started their own party, so it would be inaccurate to call him 'conservative' as well.

Overall though, points well taken. Could have also mentioned definitely conservative Strom Thurmond, who led that 1948 walkout, got kicked off the Democratic ballot in 1954 and held the longest filibuster in history (24 hours 18 minutes) in opposition to the 1957 civil rights legislation, which influenced no votes at all and only pissed off his fellow Southern Senators.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth! The quibbles were paraphrased to make a point and were not necessarily an agreement with one point or the other. I will say this: Conservatism and liberalism cannot be attributed to people as absolutes. Presidents and people in general constantly do things that, in one moment might cause less informed people to label them "liberal" or "conservative" regardless of political party affiliation, when in reality, they are neither. Were that the case, one party would rule everything all the time.

That being said, FDR was, at the moment he opposed anti -lynching laws or took other pro-southern conservative actions, was indeed a conservative, He may have vindicated himself later by being more liberal in other areas, but; at the time he did conservative things, he was a conservative. The same goes for the other names mentioned; including Bill Clinton.

Absolutely they're not absolutes. But you weaken your case calling some of these guys "conservatives". Wilson for example segregated the government because he was a racist asshole, but FDR's failure to act had more to do with political pressures and what would be publicly "accepted" than any deliberation on his part; omission rather than commission. That's not being "conservative", it's just being a wimp. When Truman desegregated the military, after the War was over, it was still controversial even then. Enough so that it caused a party split and very nearly cost him the election.

What case of mine am I weakening? I thought I made it clear that I was simply paraphrasing the op to make a point that 19th Century southern Democrats were generally social conservatives.
FDR, Clinton, Truman and Hugo Black were included in the original op as Democrats who did racist things; things they actually did. In that regard the decision to label them "conservatives" at that time would be factual. Some of those "conservative " actions were far more than trivial undertakings that can be readily dismissed on a whim or glossed over as aberrations in their "liberal" personalities.

I have maintained consistency throughout this narrative . I do not normally adhere to the labeling by party or by liberal or conservative. We The People are all of that and more, not only collectively, but as individuals as well. Frankly, I believe a number of people agree with me that, in the context of the op, FDR, Clinton, Hugo Black, and Truman were conservatives as defined by their deeds in the op. With the op serving as the boundary of my dispensation, I'll leave wandering into other less restricted areas to you!

 

[Pogo]

The Conservatives:

Conservatives fought to expand slavery while Liberals fought to end it.
Conservatives passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Conservatives supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
Conservatives supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
Conservatives supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
Conservatives opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
Conservatives fought against anti-lynching laws.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Kleagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
Conservatives passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Liberals.
Conservatives declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican liberal, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
Conservative President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Conservative of Alabama.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Liberal efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
Conservative Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Conservatives supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
Conservatives supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
Conservative public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
Conservatives were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
Conservative Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
Conservative Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
Conservative Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
Conservative Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
Conservative President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Conservative and a supporter of racial segregation.
Conservative President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Southern Conservatives opposed desegregation and integration.


Conservatives opposed:
The Emancipation Proclamation
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
The Civil Rights of 1866
The Enforcement Act of 1870
The Forced Act of 1871
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1960
The United State Civil Rights Commission


The Liberals:
Liberals enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Conservatives.
Liberals founded the HBCU's (Historical Black College's and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Conservatives.
Liberals pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
Liberals fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
Liberals pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
liberal Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
liberal Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Conservative President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
Republican liberal and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.

Great points. The intellectually dishonest will try to conflate "Republican" with "conservative" even though when the party was founded it was Liberal. There's no more Liberal an utterance than "all men are created equal", which is what Abolition put into practice.

Couple of quibbles though, FDR couldn't be called a 'conservative' and Black's Klan membership wasn't known at the time (nor did Klan membership mean then what it means now). And there's no evidence Truman was in the Klan either. Truman desegregated the military and made so much noise about "civil rights" in his first (and only) Presidential campaign that the conservative wing of the DP walked out and started their own party, so it would be inaccurate to call him 'conservative' as well.

Overall though, points well taken. Could have also mentioned definitely conservative Strom Thurmond, who led that 1948 walkout, got kicked off the Democratic ballot in 1954 and held the longest filibuster in history (24 hours 18 minutes) in opposition to the 1957 civil rights legislation, which influenced no votes at all and only pissed off his fellow Southern Senators.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth! The quibbles were paraphrased to make a point and were not necessarily an agreement with one point or the other. I will say this: Conservatism and liberalism cannot be attributed to people as absolutes. Presidents and people in general constantly do things that, in one moment might cause less informed people to label them "liberal" or "conservative" regardless of political party affiliation, when in reality, they are neither. Were that the case, one party would rule everything all the time.

That being said, FDR was, at the moment he opposed anti -lynching laws or took other pro-southern conservative actions, was indeed a conservative, He may have vindicated himself later by being more liberal in other areas, but; at the time he did conservative things, he was a conservative. The same goes for the other names mentioned; including Bill Clinton.

Absolutely they're not absolutes. But you weaken your case calling some of these guys "conservatives". Wilson for example segregated the government because he was a racist asshole, but FDR's failure to act had more to do with political pressures and what would be publicly "accepted" than any deliberation on his part; omission rather than commission. That's not being "conservative", it's just being a wimp. When Truman desegregated the military, after the War was over, it was still controversial even then. Enough so that it caused a party split and very nearly cost him the election.

What case of mine am I weakening? I thought I made it clear that I was simply paraphrasing the op to make a point that 19th Century southern Democrats were generally social conservatives.
FDR, Clinton, Truman and Hugo Black were included in the original op as Democrats who did racist things; things they actually did. In that regard the decision to label them "conservatives" at that time would be factual. Some of those "conservative " actions were far more than trivial undertakings that can be readily dismissed on a whim or glossed over as aberrations in their "liberal" personalities.

I have maintained consistency throughout this narrative . I do not normally adhere to the labeling by party or by liberal or conservative. We The People are all of that and more, not only collectively, but as individuals as well. Frankly, I believe a number of people agree with me that, in the context of the op, FDR, Clinton, Hugo Black, and Truman were conservatives as defined by their deeds in the op. With the op serving as the boundary of my dispensation, I'll leave wandering into other less restricted areas to you!

If the post was intended as parody, it doesn't read that way. I took it at face value and pointed out where it doesn't work, that's all.

I would have just eliminated the parody lines that didn't work, such as FDR and Truman. Better a solid point than a faithful parody with flaws in it.

 

[Pogo]

The Republican party of today is nothing like the Republican party of Lincoln.

Very true, and the Southern Strategy is part of that. But three-quarters of a century earlier the RP had begun shifting from its Liberal roots to the interests of the rich and the corporations (think McKinley). Analoguously the DP picked up the vacuum by taking on the Populist movement (think Bryan), which was the foundation for its affinity with immigrants, ethnics, women and blacks. In effect a "populist strategy".

 

[JQPublic1]

The Conservatives:

Conservatives fought to expand slavery while Liberals fought to end it.
Conservatives passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Conservatives supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
Conservatives supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
Conservatives supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
Conservatives opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
Conservatives fought against anti-lynching laws.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Kleagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
Conservatives passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Liberals.
Conservatives declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican liberal, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
Conservative President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Conservative of Alabama.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Liberal efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
Conservative Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Conservatives supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
Conservatives supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
Conservative public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
Conservatives were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
Conservative Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
Conservative Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
Conservative Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
Conservative Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
Conservative President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Conservative and a supporter of racial segregation.
Conservative President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Southern Conservatives opposed desegregation and integration.


Conservatives opposed:
The Emancipation Proclamation
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
The Civil Rights of 1866
The Enforcement Act of 1870
The Forced Act of 1871
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1960
The United State Civil Rights Commission


The Liberals:
Liberals enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Conservatives.
Liberals founded the HBCU's (Historical Black College's and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Conservatives.
Liberals pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
Liberals fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
Liberals pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
liberal Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
liberal Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Conservative President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
Republican liberal and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.

Great points. The intellectually dishonest will try to conflate "Republican" with "conservative" even though when the party was founded it was Liberal. There's no more Liberal an utterance than "all men are created equal", which is what Abolition put into practice.

Couple of quibbles though, FDR couldn't be called a 'conservative' and Black's Klan membership wasn't known at the time (nor did Klan membership mean then what it means now). And there's no evidence Truman was in the Klan either. Truman desegregated the military and made so much noise about "civil rights" in his first (and only) Presidential campaign that the conservative wing of the DP walked out and started their own party, so it would be inaccurate to call him 'conservative' as well.

Overall though, points well taken. Could have also mentioned definitely conservative Strom Thurmond, who led that 1948 walkout, got kicked off the Democratic ballot in 1954 and held the longest filibuster in history (24 hours 18 minutes) in opposition to the 1957 civil rights legislation, which influenced no votes at all and only pissed off his fellow Southern Senators.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth! The quibbles were paraphrased to make a point and were not necessarily an agreement with one point or the other. I will say this: Conservatism and liberalism cannot be attributed to people as absolutes. Presidents and people in general constantly do things that, in one moment might cause less informed people to label them "liberal" or "conservative" regardless of political party affiliation, when in reality, they are neither. Were that the case, one party would rule everything all the time.

That being said, FDR was, at the moment he opposed anti -lynching laws or took other pro-southern conservative actions, was indeed a conservative, He may have vindicated himself later by being more liberal in other areas, but; at the time he did conservative things, he was a conservative. The same goes for the other names mentioned; including Bill Clinton.

Absolutely they're not absolutes. But you weaken your case calling some of these guys "conservatives". Wilson for example segregated the government because he was a racist asshole, but FDR's failure to act had more to do with political pressures and what would be publicly "accepted" than any deliberation on his part; omission rather than commission. That's not being "conservative", it's just being a wimp. When Truman desegregated the military, after the War was over, it was still controversial even then. Enough so that it caused a party split and very nearly cost him the election.

What case of mine am I weakening? I thought I made it clear that I was simply paraphrasing the op to make a point that 19th Century southern Democrats were generally social conservatives.
FDR, Clinton, Truman and Hugo Black were included in the original op as Democrats who did racist things; things they actually did. In that regard the decision to label them "conservatives" at that time would be factual. Some of those "conservative " actions were far more than trivial undertakings that can be readily dismissed on a whim or glossed over as aberrations in their "liberal" personalities.

I have maintained consistency throughout this narrative . I do not normally adhere to the labeling by party or by liberal or conservative. We The People are all of that and more, not only collectively, but as individuals as well. Frankly, I believe a number of people agree with me that, in the context of the op, FDR, Clinton, Hugo Black, and Truman were conservatives as defined by their deeds in the op. With the op serving as the boundary of my dispensation, I'll leave wandering into other less restricted areas to you!

If the post was intended as parody, it doesn't read that way. I took it at face value and pointed out where it doesn't work, that's all.

I would have just eliminated the parody lines that didn't work, such as FDR and Truman. Better a solid point than a faithful parody with flaws in it.

What you would have done is immaterial since I am NOT you! Your judgement of my narrative is not the ultimate decree of what it is or is not. I make that decision, not you! Try not to forget that!

 

[Pogo]

Great points. The intellectually dishonest will try to conflate "Republican" with "conservative" even though when the party was founded it was Liberal. There's no more Liberal an utterance than "all men are created equal", which is what Abolition put into practice.

Couple of quibbles though, FDR couldn't be called a 'conservative' and Black's Klan membership wasn't known at the time (nor did Klan membership mean then what it means now). And there's no evidence Truman was in the Klan either. Truman desegregated the military and made so much noise about "civil rights" in his first (and only) Presidential campaign that the conservative wing of the DP walked out and started their own party, so it would be inaccurate to call him 'conservative' as well.

Overall though, points well taken. Could have also mentioned definitely conservative Strom Thurmond, who led that 1948 walkout, got kicked off the Democratic ballot in 1954 and held the longest filibuster in history (24 hours 18 minutes) in opposition to the 1957 civil rights legislation, which influenced no votes at all and only pissed off his fellow Southern Senators.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth! The quibbles were paraphrased to make a point and were not necessarily an agreement with one point or the other. I will say this: Conservatism and liberalism cannot be attributed to people as absolutes. Presidents and people in general constantly do things that, in one moment might cause less informed people to label them "liberal" or "conservative" regardless of political party affiliation, when in reality, they are neither. Were that the case, one party would rule everything all the time.

That being said, FDR was, at the moment he opposed anti -lynching laws or took other pro-southern conservative actions, was indeed a conservative, He may have vindicated himself later by being more liberal in other areas, but; at the time he did conservative things, he was a conservative. The same goes for the other names mentioned; including Bill Clinton.

Absolutely they're not absolutes. But you weaken your case calling some of these guys "conservatives". Wilson for example segregated the government because he was a racist asshole, but FDR's failure to act had more to do with political pressures and what would be publicly "accepted" than any deliberation on his part; omission rather than commission. That's not being "conservative", it's just being a wimp. When Truman desegregated the military, after the War was over, it was still controversial even then. Enough so that it caused a party split and very nearly cost him the election.

What case of mine am I weakening? I thought I made it clear that I was simply paraphrasing the op to make a point that 19th Century southern Democrats were generally social conservatives.
FDR, Clinton, Truman and Hugo Black were included in the original op as Democrats who did racist things; things they actually did. In that regard the decision to label them "conservatives" at that time would be factual. Some of those "conservative " actions were far more than trivial undertakings that can be readily dismissed on a whim or glossed over as aberrations in their "liberal" personalities.

I have maintained consistency throughout this narrative . I do not normally adhere to the labeling by party or by liberal or conservative. We The People are all of that and more, not only collectively, but as individuals as well. Frankly, I believe a number of people agree with me that, in the context of the op, FDR, Clinton, Hugo Black, and Truman were conservatives as defined by their deeds in the op. With the op serving as the boundary of my dispensation, I'll leave wandering into other less restricted areas to you!

If the post was intended as parody, it doesn't read that way. I took it at face value and pointed out where it doesn't work, that's all.

I would have just eliminated the parody lines that didn't work, such as FDR and Truman. Better a solid point than a faithful parody with flaws in it.

What you would have done is immaterial since I am NOT you! Your judgement of my narrative is not the ultimate decree of what it is or is not. I make that decision, not you! Try not to forget that!

Whatever dood. You put it out here, so it's subject to reaction. Get used to it.

 

[JQPublic1]

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth! The quibbles were paraphrased to make a point and were not necessarily an agreement with one point or the other. I will say this: Conservatism and liberalism cannot be attributed to people as absolutes. Presidents and people in general constantly do things that, in one moment might cause less informed people to label them "liberal" or "conservative" regardless of political party affiliation, when in reality, they are neither. Were that the case, one party would rule everything all the time.

That being said, FDR was, at the moment he opposed anti -lynching laws or took other pro-southern conservative actions, was indeed a conservative, He may have vindicated himself later by being more liberal in other areas, but; at the time he did conservative things, he was a conservative. The same goes for the other names mentioned; including Bill Clinton.

Absolutely they're not absolutes. But you weaken your case calling some of these guys "conservatives". Wilson for example segregated the government because he was a racist asshole, but FDR's failure to act had more to do with political pressures and what would be publicly "accepted" than any deliberation on his part; omission rather than commission. That's not being "conservative", it's just being a wimp. When Truman desegregated the military, after the War was over, it was still controversial even then. Enough so that it caused a party split and very nearly cost him the election.

What case of mine am I weakening? I thought I made it clear that I was simply paraphrasing the op to make a point that 19th Century southern Democrats were generally social conservatives.
FDR, Clinton, Truman and Hugo Black were included in the original op as Democrats who did racist things; things they actually did. In that regard the decision to label them "conservatives" at that time would be factual. Some of those "conservative " actions were far more than trivial undertakings that can be readily dismissed on a whim or glossed over as aberrations in their "liberal" personalities.

I have maintained consistency throughout this narrative . I do not normally adhere to the labeling by party or by liberal or conservative. We The People are all of that and more, not only collectively, but as individuals as well. Frankly, I believe a number of people agree with me that, in the context of the op, FDR, Clinton, Hugo Black, and Truman were conservatives as defined by their deeds in the op. With the op serving as the boundary of my dispensation, I'll leave wandering into other less restricted areas to you!

If the post was intended as parody, it doesn't read that way. I took it at face value and pointed out where it doesn't work, that's all.

I would have just eliminated the parody lines that didn't work, such as FDR and Truman. Better a solid point than a faithful parody with flaws in it.

What you would have done is immaterial since I am NOT you! Your judgement of my narrative is not the ultimate decree of what it is or is not. I make that decision, not you! Try not to forget that!

Whatever dood. You put it out here, so it's subject to reaction. Get used to it.

Oh, I am used to it. I just don't like it when people who I thought were allies try to make a habit out of "correcting" me without justification in the face of the enemy. That reeks!
It reeks!

 

[JQPublic1]

Absolutely they're not absolutes. But you weaken your case calling some of these guys "conservatives". Wilson for example segregated the government because he was a racist asshole, but FDR's failure to act had more to do with political pressures and what would be publicly "accepted" than any deliberation on his part; omission rather than commission. That's not being "conservative", it's just being a wimp. When Truman desegregated the military, after the War was over, it was still controversial even then. Enough so that it caused a party split and very nearly cost him the election.

What case of mine am I weakening? I thought I made it clear that I was simply paraphrasing the op to make a point that 19th Century southern Democrats were generally social conservatives.
FDR, Clinton, Truman and Hugo Black were included in the original op as Democrats who did racist things; things they actually did. In that regard the decision to label them "conservatives" at that time would be factual. Some of those "conservative " actions were far more than trivial undertakings that can be readily dismissed on a whim or glossed over as aberrations in their "liberal" personalities.

I have maintained consistency throughout this narrative . I do not normally adhere to the labeling by party or by liberal or conservative. We The People are all of that and more, not only collectively, but as individuals as well. Frankly, I believe a number of people agree with me that, in the context of the op, FDR, Clinton, Hugo Black, and Truman were conservatives as defined by their deeds in the op. With the op serving as the boundary of my dispensation, I'll leave wandering into other less restricted areas to you!

If the post was intended as parody, it doesn't read that way. I took it at face value and pointed out where it doesn't work, that's all.

I would have just eliminated the parody lines that didn't work, such as FDR and Truman. Better a solid point than a faithful parody with flaws in it.

What you would have done is immaterial since I am NOT you! Your judgement of my narrative is not the ultimate decree of what it is or is not. I make that decision, not you! Try not to forget that!

Whatever dood. You put it out here, so it's subject to reaction. Get used to it.

Oh, I am used to it. I just don't like it when people who I thought were allies try to make a habit out of attempting to "correct" me without justification in the face of the enemy. That reeks!
!

 

[Freewill]

So, how come the ******* won't vote GOP?

All I can figure it is a generational thing and they like being subjugated.

 

[Freewill]

The Conservatives:

Conservatives fought to expand slavery while Liberals fought to end it.
Conservatives passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Conservatives supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
Conservatives supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
Conservatives supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
Conservatives opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
Conservatives fought against anti-lynching laws.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Kleagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
Conservatives passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Liberals.
Conservatives declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican liberal, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
Conservative President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Conservative of Alabama.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Liberal efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
Conservative Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Conservatives supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
Conservatives supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
Conservative public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
Conservatives were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
Conservative Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
Conservative Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
Conservative Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
Conservative Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
Conservative President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Conservative and a supporter of racial segregation.
Conservative President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Southern Conservatives opposed desegregation and integration.


Conservatives opposed:
The Emancipation Proclamation
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
The Civil Rights of 1866
The Enforcement Act of 1870
The Forced Act of 1871
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1960
The United State Civil Rights Commission


The Liberals:
Liberals enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Conservatives.
Liberals founded the HBCU's (Historical Black College's and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Conservatives.
Liberals pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
Liberals fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
Liberals pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
liberal Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
liberal Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Conservative President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
Republican liberal and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.

Conservatives like to compare the histories of the republican and Democrat parties, when really they should be comparing the history of conservaties and liberals in this country. The conservatives who fear minorities and defend the confederate flag now make up the base of the republican party; though they did make up the base of the Democrat party 50 years ago.

What a steaming crock of BS. Of course you reinvent history you have to because the truth is so damn damning.

 

[ThoughtCrimes]

The Real Democratic Party!!!

The KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party.
May 15, 2008 at 1:01 pm | Posted in Democrat Party, K.K.K | 18 Comments
Our nation’s top historians reveal that the Democratic Party gave us the Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws and other repressive legislation which resulted in the multitude of murders, lynchings, mutilations, and intimidations (of thousands of black and white Republicans). On the issue of slavery: historians say the Democrats gave their lives to expand it, the Republicans gave their lives to ban it.

The Democrats:

• Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
• Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
• Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
• Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
• Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
• Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
• Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
• Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a “Kleagle” in the Ku Klux Klan
• Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
• Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
• Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
• Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
• Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
• Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
• Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
• Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
• Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
• Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
• Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
• Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
• Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
• Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
• Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
• Democrat President Bill Clinton’s mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
• Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
• Southern Democrats opposed desegregation and integration

"GTP"

You are a poor ignorant FUCK, YOYO! Only that sort would copy and paste that SHIT from a BLOG. You are as credible as your "SOURCE"!

 

[TheOldSchool]

The Conservatives:

Conservatives fought to expand slavery while Liberals fought to end it.
Conservatives passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Conservatives supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
Conservatives supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
Conservatives supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
Conservatives opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
Conservatives fought against anti-lynching laws.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Kleagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
Conservatives passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Liberals.
Conservatives declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican liberal, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
Conservative President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Conservative of Alabama.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Liberal efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
Conservative Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Conservatives supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
Conservatives supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
Conservative public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
Conservatives were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
Conservative Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
Conservative Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
Conservative Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
Conservative Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
Conservative President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Conservative and a supporter of racial segregation.
Conservative President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Southern Conservatives opposed desegregation and integration.


Conservatives opposed:
The Emancipation Proclamation
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
The Civil Rights of 1866
The Enforcement Act of 1870
The Forced Act of 1871
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1960
The United State Civil Rights Commission


The Liberals:
Liberals enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Conservatives.
Liberals founded the HBCU's (Historical Black College's and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Conservatives.
Liberals pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
Liberals fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
Liberals pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
liberal Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
liberal Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Conservative President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
Republican liberal and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.

Conservatives like to compare the histories of the republican and Democrat parties, when really they should be comparing the history of conservaties and liberals in this country. The conservatives who fear minorities and defend the confederate flag now make up the base of the republican party; though they did make up the base of the Democrat party 50 years ago.

What a steaming crock of BS. Of course you reinvent history you have to because the truth is so damn damning.

Every generation has a group of social conservatives demanding we maintain their old prejudices

 

[BluesLegend]

If you think Dem's gave up on slavery you are mistaken. Who has been fighting to import millions of dirt poor illegals into the country to clean the libs toilets and mow their lawns for slave wages? YES the Democrats.

 

[Freewill]

The Republican party of today is nothing like the Republican party of Lincoln.

Check out the below link on the Southern Strategy that changed things greatly in the 1970's.

In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in the Southern United States by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3]

The mid-1960s saw the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and a push for desegregation. During this period of social upheaval, Republican Presidential candidates Senator Barry Goldwater[4][5] and Richard Nixon worked to attract southern white conservative voters to their candidacies and the Republican Party.[6] Goldwater won the five formerly Confederate states of the Deep South (Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina) in the 1964 presidential election, but he otherwise won only in his home state of Arizona. In the 1968 presidential campaign, Nixon won Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee, all former Confederate states, contributing to the electoral realignment of white voters in some Southern states to the Republican Party. After federal civil rights legislation was gained via bipartisan votes, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965, more than 90 percent of black voters registered with the Democratic Party. The VRA provided tools to end their decades-long disenfranchisement by southern states. Hundreds of cases have been litigated to change election systems, such as at-large voting, that have prevented even significant minorities from electing candidates of their choice for city and county positions.

As the twentieth century came to a close, most white voters in the South had shifted to the Republican Party. It began to try to appeal again to black voters and rebuild the political relationship that had lasted through the 1920s, though with little success.[6] In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a national civil rights organization, for exploiting racial polarization to win elections and ignoring the black vote.[7][8]

Southern strategy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have cut and pasted the liberal left wing southern stratergy fairytale quite well.

All one has to look at is what the whites got, in the terms of racisim, by electing Nixon. What they got was absolutely nothing. The whites didn't switch because of racism it is a fairy tale to say all southern whites were racists and quite insulting I would think. No, the racists were democrats like George Wallace, segregation today and forever. The whites abandoned the democrat party because of Nixon's appeal to states rights. Blacks don't think that is a big issue, fine. But it doesn't make it racism, except in the distorted world of the liberal democrat.

 

[JQPublic1]

The Conservatives:

Conservatives fought to expand slavery while Liberals fought to end it.
Conservatives passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Conservatives supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
Conservatives supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
Conservatives supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
Conservatives opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
Conservatives fought against anti-lynching laws.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Kleagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
Conservatives passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Liberals.
Conservatives declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican liberal, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
Conservative President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Conservative of Alabama.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Liberal efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
Conservative Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Conservatives supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
Conservatives supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
Conservative public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
Conservatives were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
Conservative Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
Conservative Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
Conservative Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
Conservative Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
Conservative President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Conservative and a supporter of racial segregation.
Conservative President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Southern Conservatives opposed desegregation and integration.


Conservatives opposed:
The Emancipation Proclamation
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
The Civil Rights of 1866
The Enforcement Act of 1870
The Forced Act of 1871
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1960
The United State Civil Rights Commission


The Liberals:
Liberals enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Conservatives.
Liberals founded the HBCU's (Historical Black College's and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Conservatives.
Liberals pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
Liberals fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
Liberals pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
liberal Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
liberal Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Conservative President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
Republican liberal and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.

Conservatives like to compare the histories of the republican and Democrat parties, when really they should be comparing the history of conservaties and liberals in this country. The conservatives who fear minorities and defend the confederate flag now make up the base of the republican party; though they did make up the base of the Democrat party 50 years ago.

What a steaming crock of BS. Of course you reinvent history you have to because the truth is so damn damning.

If BS is an acronym for Brilliant Strategy, I guess you got me. The truth is that you want to re- make 19th century southern democrat conservatives into 21st century democrat liberals. Did you notice that somewhere along the way the "liberal" 19th century and early 20th century republican party that freed the slaves and advocated for civil rights are no longer liberal? Can you even recognize the truth?

 

[JQPublic1]

If you think Dem's gave up on slavery you are mistaken. Who has been fighting to import millions of dirt poor illegals into the country to clean the libs toilets and mow their lawns for slave wages? YES the Democrats.

How did your mind get so fouled up.. It is the inside of your cranium that needs cleaning. Democrats, are largely blue collar types: working people who cut their own lawns and wash their own clothes. The realize that illegals are competing for their jobs. It is the republicans and their wealthy constituents that need t= hire illegals to avoid paying decent wages to citizens.

 

[Freewill]

The Conservatives:

Conservatives fought to expand slavery while Liberals fought to end it.
Conservatives passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Conservatives supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
Conservatives supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
Conservatives supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
Conservatives opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
Conservatives fought against anti-lynching laws.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Kleagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
Conservatives passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Liberals.
Conservatives declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican liberal, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
Conservative President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Conservative of Alabama.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Liberal efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
Conservative Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Conservatives supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
Conservatives supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
Conservative public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
Conservatives were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
Conservative Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
Conservative Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
Conservative Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
Conservative Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
Conservative President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Conservative and a supporter of racial segregation.
Conservative President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Southern Conservatives opposed desegregation and integration.


Conservatives opposed:
The Emancipation Proclamation
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
The Civil Rights of 1866
The Enforcement Act of 1870
The Forced Act of 1871
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1960
The United State Civil Rights Commission


The Liberals:
Liberals enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Conservatives.
Liberals founded the HBCU's (Historical Black College's and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Conservatives.
Liberals pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
Liberals fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
Liberals pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
liberal Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
liberal Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Conservative President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
Republican liberal and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.

Conservatives like to compare the histories of the republican and Democrat parties, when really they should be comparing the history of conservaties and liberals in this country. The conservatives who fear minorities and defend the confederate flag now make up the base of the republican party; though they did make up the base of the Democrat party 50 years ago.

What a steaming crock of BS. Of course you reinvent history you have to because the truth is so damn damning.

If BS is an acronym for Brilliant Strategy, I guess you got me. The truth is that you want to re- make 19th century southern democrat conservatives into 21st century democrat liberals. Did you notice that somewhere along the way the "liberal" 19th century and early 20th century republican party that freed the slaves and advocated for civil rights are no long liberal? Can you even recognize the truth?

I make it simple, the democrat party (spelling intentionally insulting) was the party of slavery, was the party of the KKK, was the party of segregation, was the party of pole taxes, was the party of Jim Crow. THAT is the absolute truth. Since not one of those institutions have come back since REPUBLICAN fought the DEMOCRATS to end that practice your whole pile of BS is nothing more then stinking bull sh...

If you could name something done to hurt blacks, other then what democrats did to them you would have. But no you can't so you try and spread your manure with Southern strategy. Inferring that somehow that hurt blacks more then the democrat party had and has ever since Republicans freed them.

 

[idb]

The Real Democratic Party!!!

The KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party.
May 15, 2008 at 1:01 pm | Posted in Democrat Party, K.K.K | 18 Comments
Our nation’s top historians reveal that the Democratic Party gave us the Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws and other repressive legislation which resulted in the multitude of murders, lynchings, mutilations, and intimidations (of thousands of black and white Republicans). On the issue of slavery: historians say the Democrats gave their lives to expand it, the Republicans gave their lives to ban it.

The Democrats:

• Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
• Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
• Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
• Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
• Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
• Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
• Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
• Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a “Kleagle” in the Ku Klux Klan
• Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
• Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
• Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
• Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
• Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
• Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
• Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
• Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
• Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
• Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
• Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
• Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
• Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
• Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
• Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
• Democrat President Bill Clinton’s mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
• Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
• Southern Democrats opposed desegregation and integration

"GTP"
The Typical Democrat Below:
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And of course...the Republicans invaded The South.

 

[Buzz Jenkins]

The Conservatives:

Conservatives fought to expand slavery while Liberals fought to end it.
Conservatives passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Conservatives supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
Conservatives supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
Conservatives supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
Conservatives opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
Conservatives fought against anti-lynching laws.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Kleagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
Conservatives passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Liberals.
Conservatives declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican liberal, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
Conservative President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Conservative of Alabama.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Liberal efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
Conservative Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Conservatives supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
Conservatives supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
Conservative public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
Conservatives were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
Conservative Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
Conservative Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
Conservative Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
Conservative Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
Conservative President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Conservative and a supporter of racial segregation.
Conservative President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Southern Conservatives opposed desegregation and integration.


Conservatives opposed:
The Emancipation Proclamation
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
The Civil Rights of 1866
The Enforcement Act of 1870
The Forced Act of 1871
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1960
The United State Civil Rights Commission


The Liberals:
Liberals enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Conservatives.
Liberals founded the HBCU's (Historical Black College's and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Conservatives.
Liberals pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
Liberals fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
Liberals pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
liberal Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
liberal Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Conservative President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
Republican liberal and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.

Conservatives like to compare the histories of the republican and Democrat parties, when really they should be comparing the history of conservaties and liberals in this country. The conservatives who fear minorities and defend the confederate flag now make up the base of the republican party; though they did make up the base of the Democrat party 50 years ago.

I have always thought this the argument that this historic argument is absurd in light of modern circumstances. In the 1950s the Dem party was full of racists. However, both parties changed, substantially. A Republican used to not be able to be elected in the South. Now Republicans carry the south in national elections and the state houses and governorships have largely gone Repub. The same people and ideology exists; the proponents just shifted parties and the Dems evolved into a leftist party.

{Whoops, I did not proof read this post! I am knee deep into my drinking hours right now!}

 

[JQPublic1]

The Conservatives:

Conservatives fought to expand slavery while Liberals fought to end it.
Conservatives passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Conservatives supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
Conservatives supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
Conservatives supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
Conservatives opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
Conservatives fought against anti-lynching laws.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Kleagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
Conservatives passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Liberals.
Conservatives declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican liberal, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
Conservative President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Conservative of Alabama.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Liberal efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
Conservative Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Conservatives supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
Conservatives supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
Conservative public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
Conservatives were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
Conservative Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
Conservative Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
Conservative Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
Conservative Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
Conservative President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
Conservative President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Conservative and a supporter of racial segregation.
Conservative President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Southern Conservatives opposed desegregation and integration.


Conservatives opposed:
The Emancipation Proclamation
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
The Civil Rights of 1866
The Enforcement Act of 1870
The Forced Act of 1871
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1960
The United State Civil Rights Commission


The Liberals:
Liberals enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Conservatives.
Liberals founded the HBCU's (Historical Black College's and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Conservatives.
Liberals pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
Liberals fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
Liberals pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
liberal Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
liberal Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Conservative President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
Republican liberal and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.

Conservatives like to compare the histories of the republican and Democrat parties, when really they should be comparing the history of conservaties and liberals in this country. The conservatives who fear minorities and defend the confederate flag now make up the base of the republican party; though they did make up the base of the Democrat party 50 years ago.

What a steaming crock of BS. Of course you reinvent history you have to because the truth is so damn damning.

If BS is an acronym for Brilliant Strategy, I guess you got me. The truth is that you want to re- make 19th century southern democrat conservatives into 21st century democrat liberals. Did you notice that somewhere along the way the "liberal" 19th century and early 20th century republican party that freed the slaves and advocated for civil rights are no long liberal? Can you even recognize the truth?

I make it simple, the democrat party (spelling intentionally insulting) was the party of slavery, was the party of the KKK, was the party of segregation, was the party of pole taxes, was the party of Jim Crow. THAT is the absolute truth. Since not one of those institutions have come back since REPUBLICAN fought the DEMOCRATS to end that practice your whole pile of BS is nothing more then stinking bull sh...

If you could name something done to hurt blacks, other then what democrats did to them you would have. But no you can't so you try and spread your manure with Southern strategy. Inferring that somehow that hurt blacks more then the democrat party had and has ever since Republicans freed them.

Don't make it simple, make it real! Conservatism, under the guise of the 19th/20th Century Democrat Party, is the culprit in all of your accusations. You keep getting hung up on party labeling. That is stupid
and shortsighted.