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I live here now, not when I was a kid. Ted Cruz isn't my fucking candidate. Jessie Helms is DEAD GOD DAMMIT!!Last time I looked Strom Thurmond was dead. So are alot of people that were old enough to vote in 1964.
Yeah right....that's why the South used to be all blue.....and now it's all red.....because all the racist people moved out and the embracing Republicans moved in.....you're so pathetic, you can't even come up with a believable theory. That's why Republicans embrace Affirmative Action, why Republican Trump supporters are the ones screaming out bigoted remarks....
I know you know better, but like a good conservative Republican, you push the myth you all created that Democrats were the ones that were the racist South and it is still the same, except the South used to be blue and now it is red, so your myth doesn't even make sense. You can continue to deny History, but it won't change it and most people are not gullible to believe the Republican's revised version of History.
To understand why the Republican Party has come to dominate the South—and why that strength may now be waning—you have to go back to the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln and Northern abolitionists ran the Republican Party in the 1860s, while the Democrats drew much of their strength from the slave states. After Reconstruction, when the Southern states were left to their own devices, the Democratic Party ruled with an iron fist—and Jim Crow. Their reign lasted nearly a century.
The GOP in Dixie, political scientist V.O. Key Jr. observed in 1949, more closely resembled a cult or a conspiracy than a political party. In 1950, of the 127 members of Congress from the former Confederate states, just two were Republican.
But the Democrats’ stranglehold on the South was already loosening. Perhaps no one embodied, or facilitated, the South’s transformation from the Democrats’ Solid South to the regional anchor of today’s Republican Party as much as Strom Thurmond.
After Democratic President Harry Truman embraced civil rights ahead of his re-election bid in 1948, Southern Democrats broke from the party in protest. They wanted to send a message to Democrats in Washington: Either civil rights go, or the South goes.
A group of Southern lawmakers formed the “Dixiecrats,” who were devoted to states’ rights, and nominated Thurmond, the former Democratic segregationist governor of South Carolina, for president. On a hot day in Birmingham, Alabama, Thurmond made his first speech to Southern deserters as their presumptive nominee.
“There’s not enough troops in the Army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches,” Thurmond told them. That November, he won over a million votes and carried four states in the Deep South.
Thurmond and his fellow Dixiecrats weren’t kidding around. Two months after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in July 1964, Thurmond, by then a U.S. senator, switched parties from Democrat to Republican. That November, five Southern states followed his lead and voted for Barry Goldwater, the Republicans’ ultra-conservative presidential nominee. In 1964, more Southern whites voted Republican than Democrat for the first time. They never went back.
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/07/18/republican-hold-south-may-collapse-257551.html
I've been living in the South for the last 25 years. Most Republicans here aren't racists. Most of the Democrats here are poor, lower Middle Class whites and Blacks. The whites vote Democrat because it's a tradition. The reason they don't vote Republican is because they got this crazy idea from somebody the the GOP only helps the rich. Good thing so many people have moved here from other states and reversed the Democratic hold on most Southern states. KY still drifts back and forth at the local level.....but now they're run by a Republican governor. But, and this is important, most people born here consider themselves to be Democrats despite how they vote. They are some seriously ignorant idiots.
I don't know where you live in the South.....but I lived in Alabama for about 8 years, still have relatives there and believe me, racism is still alive and well.....in the church, even. I know Strom Thurmond is dead....so is Robert Byrd, yet Republicans keep using Byrd as the model for racism when he actually repented and claimed he was sorry for his behavior as a racist in the 40's. Strom went to his grave a racist, just like Jesse Helms. And here we have Ted Cruz, (Republican) praising him Jesse Helms. Show me where any Democrat leader or candidate ever praises a racist....I dare you.
Tea Party Darling Ted Cruz Praises Jesse Helms: Another Racial Misstep for the GOP
I know Jesse Helms is dead....but racism isn't dead in the Republican party....especially when one of your party's candidates is praising him?
It's hilarious to read some of the conservative's reasoning as to why it is Democrats that are racist.....while they hold up their bigoted signs and fight all legislature that would benefit blacks and minorities. There was a switch in Party names.....Republicans became Democrats and Democrats became Republicans, but the real spirit of racism is not in the Party labels but rather in the concept of "liveral vs conservative". It is conservatives that are racist....and yes, there may be a few of them in the Democratic party, but the majority of them are in the Republican party.
What would have been much, much more entertaining would have been if, instead of writing this piece about “Democrats” and “Republicans,” Williamson had written it about liberals and conservatives. Barry Goldwater and George Wallace both used conservative rhetoric to justify their segregationist beliefs — and so did William F. Buckley. Both parties at the time had liberal and conservative wings, and in each of those parties it was the liberal wing that was right on civil rights.
The new face of “Democrats are the real racists!”
