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White supremist have always had their stronghold in the South. From 1877 when the Federal Troops retreated from Louisiana, the former slave holding class began to retake control over the state governments an instituted the 100 year reign of terror on the recently freed slaves in those Southern states. Lynching was part of the terror they spread. Northern Democrats split with the Southern democrats in 1964. The South is now a stronghold of both White supremist and the Republican party.
Casting you as a lying low-live has become far too easy.
" Northern Democrats split with the Southern democrats"
“The Dixiecrats were welcomed back into the Democratic fold with open arms. Democrats never denied a segregationist a committee chairmanship or a leadership position because of his noxious views on race. No Democrat has ever been punished for making a racist remark….More than 80 percent of Republicans in the House and Senate voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965….[The] record on race, of Thurmond the Republican is pretty good. He was among the first of Southern senators to hire blacks for his staff. He supported blacks for judgeships. He voted for extension of the Voting Rights Act.” Jack Kelly
Ernest Hollings, Richard Russell, Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, J. William Fulbright, and Robert Byrd all voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act…and all remained Democrats. But, lest one think that only Southern Democrats were inclined against civil rights, the following Democrats were far from Southerners and all voted against allowing the 1957 civil rights bill on the calendar: Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon (a favorite target of Senator Joe McCarthy), Warren Magnuson of Washington, James Murray of Montana, Mike Mansfield of Montana, and Joseph O’Mahoney of Wyoming.
The lesson? The more conservative members are willing to embark on great change only when it comes to great transgressions against humanity: slavery, abortion, terrorism. The Republican Party was founded for the express purpose of opposing slavery. And after the Civil War, the Republicans passed the 13th amendment (giving slaves their freedom), the 14th (giving slaves citizenship), and the 15th (giving slaves the vote). And it was Republicans who sent troops into the Democrat South to enforce the rights of freed slaves. And Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the Reconstruction Act of 1867, both signed by Republican US Grant.
Democrats blocked Republican-instituted civil rights bills, 1890 protection for black voters; anti-lynching bills in 1922, 1935, and 1938; anti-poll tax bills in 1942,1944, and 1946.
The first Progressive Democrat President, Woodrow Wilson, segregated Washington, D.C., and brought Jim Crow to the federal workforce.
And in the space of about 50 years the Republicans have the White supremist South, or is it the other way around and the White supremist now have the former Grand Old Party?