Southern Democrats fraught to keep segregation alive. Northern Democrats did not. In fact their support of blacks cost them the South. Both Republicans and Democrats have strongly supported the EPA until recent years.
"In fact their support of blacks cost them [Democrats] the South."
Utter nonsense.
No doubt you learned same at the feet of a Liberal school marm.
1. Liberal neurotic obsession with this apocryphal notion- itÂ’s been cited hundreds of times in the NYTimes- is supposed to explain why Democrats canÂ’t get nice churchgoing, patriotic southerners to vote for the party of antiwar protesters, abortion, the ACLU and gay marriage.
a. They tell themselves itÂ’s because they wonÂ’t stoop to pander to a bunch of racists. This slander should probably be the first clue as to why southerners donÂ’t like them.
b. The central premise of this folklore is that anyone who votes Republican is a racist. Pretty sophisticated thinking.
2. Second, the South kept voting for Democrats for decades after that 1964 act. And, btw, Democrats continued to win a plurality of votes in southern congressional elections for the next 30 yearsÂ…right up to 1994.
"GOP Poised to Reap Redistricting Rewards" by Michael Barone on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent
a. Between ’48 and ’88, Republicans never won a majority of the Dixiecrat states, outside of two 49-state landslides. Any loses in the South are directly attributable to their championing abortion, gays in the military, Christian-bashing, springing criminals, attacks on guns, dovish foreign policy, ‘save the whales/kill the humans environmentalism….certainly not race!
b. Rather than the Republicans winning the Dixiecrat vote, the Dixiecrats simply died out. By contrast, Democrats kept winning the alleged “segregationist” states into the ‘90’s. If states were voting for Goldwater out of racism, what of Carter’s 1976 sweep of all the Goldwater states?
Covered fully in "Mugged," Coulter.
Hint:
Know why they were called
'Dixiecrats,' not 'Republicrats' or 'Dixiecans'?
Did you know that Senate
Democrats blocked every anti-lynching bill the Republicans offered?
True story.
Too late for you to learn?
I'm not trying to point out that Republicans were any more racist than Democrats. However, beginning in 1960's the GOP got a big boost when southerns began voting Republican, first in national elections and then state and local elections.
The shift from Democrat to Republican in the South began in the mid 1960Â’s with the civil rights act, first presidential elections, then gubernatorial elections and finally the legislatures. However it all began with the passage of the civil rights bill.
In presidential elections:
After reconstruction and prior to the introduction of the civil rights act, the southern states voted for Democrat presidential candidates in 95% of the elections. In fact several states, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina had never voted Republican after reconstruction until the Civil Rights Act was passed.
After the introduction of the civil rights bill, almost every southern state voted Republican in presidential elections with the exception of the Carter and Clinton election. Alabama and Mississippi have never voted for a Democrat presidential candidate since the civil rights bill was passed.
List of United States presidential election results by state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In gubernatorial elections, the South started turning to Republicans in 1966 with Republican wins in Arkansas and Florida, followed by Kentucky in 1967, and North Carolina in 1973. Beginning in 1980, the remainder of the Southern states began electing a steady stream of Republican governors.
Solid South - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1. Goldwater was one of only six Republican senators to vote against the 1964 act. He did so on libertarian grounds, opposed to the actÂ’s restrictions on private property which he believed beyond the CongressÂ’s powers under the commerce clause. Five others supported the partyÂ’s presidential nominee.
a. Goldwater went on to win five southern states in 1964: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. But he lost eight.
b. Democrats build the ‘southern strategy’ tale on the fact that the same states voted for ‘Dixiecrat’ Strom Thurmond in 1948 (less Georgia).
c. Except that
Nixon and Reagan lost, or almost lost the same states in Â’68 and Â’80Â…
d. And Jimmy Carter and Clinton did pretty well in those states in
Â’76 and Â’92.
e. And the
Goldwater states went right back to voting Democrat for decadesÂ…
2. "I'm not trying to point out that Republicans were any more racist than Democrats."
That's not strong enough.
The implication is that they were equally 'racist.'
Not true....the Democrats were the racist party.....the KKK was their military wing...and I'd be happy to document same.
SoÂ…if Republicans were racists and got racist southerners to vote for them, how to explain this: Republicans always did best in the southern states that Goldwater lost, which happened to be the same ones Republicans had been winning with some regularity since 1928.
a. In
Â’28, Â’52, Â’56, and Â’60, Republicans generally won Virginia, Florida, Texas, Kentucky and sometimes North Carolina or Louisiana. Did you notice that those years were before 1964, the so-called 'turning point'?
b. Four years after Goldwater, the segregationist vote went right back to Democrats:
Humphrey got half of Wallace’s supporters on election day. Nixon got none of ‘em. “When the '68 campaign began, Nixon was at 42 percent, Humphrey at 29 percent, Wallace at 22 percent. When it ended, Nixon and Humphrey were tied at 43 percent, with Wallace at 13 percent. The 9 percent of the national vote that had been peeled off from Wallace had gone to Humphrey.”
The neocons & Nixon's southern strategy - Pat Buchanan - Page 1
c. In Â’76, Carter swept the South.
Was Carter appealing to bigotsÂ….or is that only the case when Republicans win the South?
3. Reagan lost or barely won the Goldwater statesÂ…but Reagan won among young southern voters- but lost among seniors, those who has voted in Â’48 and Â’64. That meant that
the segregationists never abandoned the Democrats: eventually they died or were outvoted by younger voters. NopeÂ…after ThurmondÂ’s run, the
Dixiecrats went right back to voting for Democrats for another half century.
4. In writing about McGovern and Wallace, liberal luminary, Arthur Schlesinger, actually
referred to Wallace voters as responding to their candidate’s “integrity”! “The primaries themselves, especially the success of McGovern and Wallace, provide the best evidence for the proposition that voters in 1972 care less about a candidate's stand on particular issues than they do about the candidate's integrity,…”
How McGovern Will Win
a.
McGovern gave a tip-of-the-hat to the segregationist Wallace in his acceptance speech at the Democrat Convention. That was the exact midpoint between Goldwater and Reagan. So…what of the imaginary “southern strategy” where the Republicans were supposed to have a plan to appeal to racists?
b. Democrat McGovern: “And I was as moved as well by the appearance in the Convention Hall of the Governor of Alabama,
George Wallace. … Governor, we pray for your full recovery so you can stand up and speak out for all of those who see you as their champion.”
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH OF SENATOR GEORGE MCGOVERN
Covered pretty fully in chapter 12 if "Mugged," Coulter
And....I'd be more than happy...in fact ecstatic .....to remind of the racist history of Bill Clinton.
Just say the word.
