Say something nice about the "other side" challenge. Please don't be a dick, either
“Fight for the things that you care about but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” -- RBG. I can dig it!
My democrat counterparts were actually honest about being a racist for well over a century, as they fought a bloody Civil War to protect slavery and started the KKK and implemented the Jim Crow laws.
Now they just pretend they changed overnight ever since the Civil RIghts laws were passed.
They all changed just like that!
The change started in the late 1940s, over 70 years ago, with President Truman.
""....Up until the post-World War II period, the party’s hold on the region was so entrenched that Southern politicians usually couldn’t get elected unless they were Democrats.
But when President Harry S. Truman, a Democratic Southerner, introduced a pro-civil rights platform at the party’s 1948 convention, a faction walked out.
These defectors, known as the “Dixiecrats,” held a separate convention in Birmingham, Alabama. There, they nominated South Carolina Governor
Strom Thurmond, a staunch opposer of civil rights, to run for president on their “States’ Rights” ticket. Although Thurmond lost the election to Truman, he still won
over a million popular votes.
It “was the first time since before the Civil War that the South was not solidly Democratic,” Goldfield says. “And that began the erosion of the southern influence in the Democratic party.”
After that, the majority of the South still continued to vote Democratic because it thought of the Republican party as the party of Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction.
The big break didn’t come until President Johnson, another Southern Democrat, signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
Though some Democrats had switched to the Republican party prior to this, “the defections became a flood” after Johnson signed these acts, Goldfield says. “And so the political parties began to reconstitute themselves.”""""
Democratic defectors, known as the “Dixiecrats,” started a switch to the Republican party in a movement that was late...
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