TyroneSlothrop
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OK so you claim its Democrats who are racist...how come the racist vote for the GOP ? how comewith malice and forethought yeah really moron
And that is about the extent of the answer(s) I have been able to find.
It is a myth. THe South went Republican because it grew a middle class.
Poor whites kept voting dem. The new middle class is the one that started voting GOP, and flipped the South.
Republican/GOP Racism: The History
Something that’s rarely mentioned is how the voting power of the modern Republican party is largely grounded in racist sentiments that grew out of racist disfavor toward:
It’s no secret that historically, it had been the Democratic Party who had catered to racist sentiment. Abraham Lincoln was himself a Republican (as Republicans happily point out). Martin Luther King was also a Republican in his day. But what people generally overlook is this: After 1964, when the Civil Rights Act passed under a Democratic administration, America’s racists switched to the Republican Party. The history of the electoral map makes this quite clear. 2016 Presidential Election Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College
- A Democratic administration who passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- A subsequent switch of African Americans who began voting Democrat due to policy changes in Republican circles intended to gain the ‘anti-black’ vote.
After the Act passed, the electorate in the south went to the Republican party. The only exceptions to this are in 1968 when the South actually voted for George Wallace (who ran as an American Independent; a party that had very pro-segregation views) and Jimmy Carter, an evangelist from the South who unlike future Democrats, would have the backing of popular evangelists. You can see the voting trends for yourself below.
In other words, the Democratic party indeed used to be the party of racists, but this changed after 1964. Those who attempt to tie the Democratic party to racism rely well into the past in order to claim that the Democratic party is the party of racism.
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Republican Racism Tea Party Racism GOP Tactics Fact and Myth
And that's because the South has always been (overall) decidedly conservative. It's the culture. Political parties shift with the winds but social cultures -- not so much. The Republican party was ignored in the Shout for a century because, at the time it was created, it represented bold liberal ideas and "big government". That changed, and eventually the electorate followed.
Fun fact: after the CRA passed in 1964, not only did Strom Thurmond open the floodgates by doing the unthinkable switching to the Party of Lincoln, but in the same year George Wallace petitioned Barry Goldwater to be his running mate. Goldwater of course declined but also had to talk Wallace out of running on his own (as he would later in '68 and '72) since Wallace would siphon off Goldwater's ability to break into the South after all that time.
Strom Thurmond switched.
Robert Byrd did not.
The claim has been made that these old racist switched to the GOP. It has not been supported.
Lee Atwater
Ken Mehlman
Rhetoric? That's how the GOP took a dozen states away from the dems?
The dems never thought to point out that the GOP wasn't living up to this supposedly rhetoric?
I have asked you to support your claim. Citing Authority is not support, it is a Logical Fallacy.
What policies or actions were supposedly taken to get these racists to switch to the GOP?
And that's because the South has always been (overall) decidedly conservative. It's the culture. Political parties shift with the winds but social cultures -- not so much. The Republican party was ignored in the Shout for a century because, at the time it was created, it represented bold liberal ideas and "big government". That changed, and eventually the electorate followed.
Fun fact: after the CRA passed in 1964, not only did Strom Thurmond open the floodgates by doing the unthinkable switching to the Party of Lincoln, but in the same year George Wallace petitioned Barry Goldwater to be his running mate. Goldwater of course declined but also had to talk Wallace out of running on his own (as he would later in '68 and '72) since Wallace would siphon off Goldwater's ability to break into the South after all that time.
Rhetoric? That's how the GOP took a dozen states away from the dems?
The dems never thought to point out that the GOP wasn't living up to this supposedly rhetoric?
The President who signed the Civil Rights Act...that would be Democrat President LBJ...I give him credit because credit is due ................
You have shown that one racist exists.
Do you understand that that does not at all support your claim that the GOP pandered to racists in order to get them to switch?
Are you trying to find examples? If you are trying and can't find any, what does that tell you?
I have asked you to support your claim. Citing Authority is not support, it is a Logical Fallacy.
What policies or actions were supposedly taken to get these racists to switch to the GOP?
You have been posting your rather stupid opinion that the rise of the Middle class not racism is what makes the GOP popular among the Neo Confederates...you have not supported that in any way shape or form...I on the other hand have provided links quotes and information.... Not one Iota of support for your mindless theory
I made the claim the GOP is racist and that is why they are stronger in the racist South...
I supported that with information fvrom GOP leaders and insiders...you being a slack jaw moron made the claim that the GOP is strong in the South because "the South developed a Middle class"
Bottom line
I supported what I said with information and with links ...you are reduced to repeating your numb nuts opinion...anyone following the thread will be able to see that.....
Bottom line Fk you wing nutBottom line, you're a scumbag.
You have shown that one racist exists.
Do you understand that that does not at all support your claim that the GOP pandered to racists in order to get them to switch?
Ken Mehlman ...GOP Chairman apologized for racism...you said he was one man
Lee Atwater decribed the GOP strategy to use racism...you simply ignored it ...grow up
You have shown that one racist exists.
Do you understand that that does not at all support your claim that the GOP pandered to racists in order to get them to switch?
Ken Mehlman ...GOP Chairman apologized for racism...you said he was one man
Lee Atwater decribed the GOP strategy to use racism...you simply ignored it ...grow up
Lee Atwater talks smack about using rhetoric about forced bussing. But Nixon was the biggest forced busing guy of them all.
His claims do not match GOP policy.
I have asked you to support your claim with examples of racist policies the GOP used to pander to racist. Lee Atwater's transcript does not do that.
After former Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered some harsh words towards the GOP, saying that some parts of the party have a"deep vein of intolerance,"conservatives were not too happy.
That is the guy ...in spite of that he and Ken Mehlman former GOP chairman realize what you deny...GOP depends on racism for votes ..Have I mentioned Lee Atwater?After former Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered some harsh words towards the GOP, saying that some parts of the party have a"deep vein of intolerance,"conservatives were not too happy.
Powell? The black man who the GOP made into a powerful and rich man?
Who the GOP base was ready to put in the White House if he had run against Bill Clinton?
That Colin POwell?
You have shown that one racist exists.
Do you understand that that does not at all support your claim that the GOP pandered to racists in order to get them to switch?
Ken Mehlman ...GOP Chairman apologized for racism...you said he was one man
Lee Atwater decribed the GOP strategy to use racism...you simply ignored it ...grow up
Lee Atwater talks smack about using rhetoric about forced bussing. But Nixon was the biggest forced busing guy of them all.
His claims do not match GOP policy.
I have asked you to support your claim with examples of racist policies the GOP used to pander to racist. Lee Atwater's transcript does not do that.
sure sure wing nut ...Ken Mehlman apologized for GOP racism...Lee Atwater described the process ...Colin Powell pointed it out and was lambasted...and you are a wing nut