It's funny how the rabid leftists hope to ignore the history of their ideology. It was the Republican Party that cane to prominence in the late civil war years as a counter to the racist fanaticism of the slave-owning Democrats in the American South.
Actually, it was the before the Civil War that the GOP came to prominance, but their hands were hardly clean. They wanted to round up all the blacks and ship them back to Africa. After the civil war, they pretty much forgot about the issue of civil rights when they signed on to the comprimise of 1876 that ended reconstruction and allowed the institution of Jim Crow to happen.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 found Republicans as committed advocates. 80 percent of Republicans
supported the Civil Rights Act against 63 percent of Democrats supporting the law.
Right. Now, here's the thing, and try to pay attention. AFTER LBJ signed the CRA of 1964, he lamented that he lost the South for a Generation. In 1964's election, Five Deep South States voted for Goldwater, who was otherwise rejected by the rest of the country because he was nuts. In 1968 the South either went for Geo. Wallace's independent campaign or signed up for Tricky Dick. By 1972, the Republicans had fully embraced Southern Racists and they've been winning the South ever since.
Look forward to today. look at the disasters if Democrat run cities. So much of the crime and poverty that black Americans experience today is seen in the large cities across the country. And, almost every one of these cities—from Los Angeles to Portland to Chicago to Baltimore to New York to Chicago are Democratic Party dystopias.
Okay, let's look at that.
There are five reasons why Crime is so bad in the cities (all cities, not just Democratic ones). Besides the fact they have higher concentrations of people, and therefore more crime.
Those are - addiction, poverty, mental illness, racism and gun proliferation.
Well, addiction - The GOP has pushed the War on Drugs long after everyone has concluded it doesn't work. We've flooded our prisons with mostly poor people of color (white people like Rush Limbaugh get rehab) and rehab programs for poor people like Methadone are impossible to get because the Republicans in Congress keep slashing programs to give tax cuts to rich people.
poverty- Again- Republicans keep trying to slash poverty relief programs or pervert them to make their rich donors richer.
Mental Illness - I'm willing to put blame on both sides for this one. Liberals for shutting down the mental hospitals because they were "mean" and Republicans for refusing to adequately fund outpatient programs.
Racism- Again- it's been the GOP Brand since Tricky Dick. Trump just says the quiet part out loud.
Which brings us to gun proliferation. Cities have tried to limit or ban guns in their city limits, but the NRA keeps going to congress to weaken national gun laws or goes to court to fight any gun bans.
Case in point, my own home town. We banned guns in 1984, and in the 1990's, gun violence started to decline. Then in 2010, the National Rampage Association went to SCOTUS and got a victory in the McDonald case. Pretty much overnight, gun stores started popping up all over Chicago and our murder rate doubled in a decade.
It's not the cities are a dystopia, it's the whole country.