Revere
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Are you really this fucking clueless? What was the economic differential before liberals pushed reforms that made it a crime to discriminate on the basis of race, compared to after? Why did conservatives consider equal opportunity legislation an affront to states rights?
I thought we dispelled this notion that conservatives were racists. George Wallace was a populist/progressive.
Actually blacks' growth of income was higher between WW2 and 1960 than it was after 1960. In fact, every metric of black life is worse now than it was prior to 1960.
George Wallace was a complex person. He lost his first bid for Governor because the Klan didn't support his lax attitude. Vowing to not be "out niggered again" he ran a successful right wing campaign, and extended the racist message to the national stage in two major elections. One can easily see how his strategy evolved into the "Southern Strategy" of the Republican party, that went from Nixon to Reagan's "states rights" speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, to the current crop of neo-racist scum.
At least racists like Wallace and Lee Atwater sought atonement for their ugly politics.
I guess you can't explain why blacks had it worse once The Great Society kicked in.