JimBowie1958
Old Fogey
- Sep 25, 2011
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You're a fucking moron who needs to pick up a god damn history book.
CONSERVATIVES started the KKK... Conservatives were democrats back in the 1800's.
Political party has fucking nothing to do with anything. It's IDEOLOGY that matters... especially considering ideologies had a complete party polarity shift.
You dont know jack.
The Southern racist voter was most noted for:
1. working class populism (while the wealthy Republican carpet baggers had close links with the black community and most blacks voted GOP back then).
2. supporting eugenics like most liberals did back then (like Margeret Sanger did).
3. wanting to grow the power of government in order to benefit the 'little man' against the businessman.
4. supported restricting gun rights, especially if minority communities had access to them in the bigger cities.
Republicans back in the time of slavery and the civil war were the more progressive members of society at the time and generally comprised the union.
The secessionists during the civil war in the confederacy were democrats. The conservatives were democrats before the polarity shift in the next century where conservatives abandoned the democratic party for the republican, and vice versa.
You obviously don't know your history.
Sorry, but the racist conservatives who owned slaves were not part of the republican party when it was founded, which was formed by anti-slavery activists. The last thing you could call conseravtives are activists especially when it comes to slavery. Come on, over 100 years later you guys are still not in good graces with black voters. All that talk about lazy black people, reparation complaints and all sorts of stuff.
Conservatism does not accept slavery and never did. The Jackson Democrats were not conservative, but populist rabble-rousers. The old Whig party was the conservative party, and that fell apart over the issue of slavery, and the conservatives like Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grant, etc, were conservative.
Southern slave owners were leftwing utopians who had a vision of a society based on something similar to Sparta which also ran on slavery. Jefferson was the father of the Democratic party and was not conservative and owned slaves.
You dont know what the hell you are talking about.