most racists are Republicans
Tell that to Dr. King's family...
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/20/us/son-of-dr-king-asserts-lbj-role-in-plot.html?_r=0
"Mr. King asserted that President Lyndon B. Johnson must have been part of a military and governmental conspiracy to kill Dr. King."
Funny, how someone like Hillary, who has so many corpses in the wake of her rise to power, loves LBJ so much...
Wow glad you have recent history to give as an example. This is what actually happened.
In American politics,
southern strategy refers to methods the
Republican Party used to gain political support in
the South by appealing to the racism against African Americans harbored by many southern white voters.
[1][2][3]
As the
African American Civil Rights Movement and dismantling of
Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened pre-existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidate
Richard Nixon and Senator
Barry Goldwater developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South to the Republican Party that had traditionally supported the Democratic Party.
[4]
In academia, "southern strategy" refers primarily to "top down" narratives of the political realignment of the South, which suggest that Republican leaders consciously appealed to many white southerners' racial resentments in order to gain their support.
[5] This top-down narrative of the southern strategy is generally believed to be the primary force that transformed southern politics following the civil rights era.
[6][7] This view has been questioned by historians such as
Matthew Lassiter,
Kevin M. Kruse and
Joseph Crespino, who have presented an alternative, "bottom up" narrative, which Lassiter has called the "suburban strategy." This narrative recognizes the centrality of racial backlash to the political realignment of the South,
[8] but suggests that this backlash took the form of a defense of
de factosegregation in the suburbs, rather than overt resistance to
racial integration, and that the story of this backlash is a national, rather than a strictly southern one.
[9][10][11][12]
The perception that the Republican Party had served as the "vehicle of white supremacy in the South," particularly during the
Goldwater campaign and the presidential elections of 1968 and 1972, made it difficult for the Republican Party to win the support of black voters in the South in later years.
[4] 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.
Hence my assertion that most racists are Republicans. And minority voting habits and endorsements received by Trump from white supremacist groups confirms this.
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