When another one of you Dimwinger half wits claimed a bunch of "Dixiecrats" who filibustered the Civil Rights Act flipped to the Republican party you posted this:I NEVER SAID THEY WERE you FUCKING ILLITERATE HACK.
BULLSHIT. I said *NO SUCH THING*. Prove me wrong LIAR.
FUCK outta here.
BULLSHIT. Thurmond was the first to do so, in September 1964.
You remember Thurmond? Trent Lott said if he'd been elected "we wouldn't have had all these problems down through all these years". Oh yeah Lott switched too.
Now, since I know what a lying hack asshat you are I can tell you what your dumbfuck spin will be: "I didn't say Lott filibustered the CYA"
But I will tell you know that bullshit won't fly because you posted that while quoting multiple quotes discussing who switched because of the CRA.
You lose again, liar.![]()
Was Strom Thurmond a Dixiecrat?
Was Jessie Helms a Dixiecrat?
Thurmond was the ONLY one. THe rest all returned to the dem party, like good little boys.
Thurmond and Wright (his running mate) were the only ones. After that didn't work they went back to their governor jobs, then Thurmond went to run for the Senate but the state Democrats kicked him off the ballot and he had to run as a write-in, which he did, and won, and that's how he got to the Senate.
AGAIN ---- NAME RECOGNITION.
And the rest returned to the dem party like good little boys.
There is no "the rest". Thurmond and Wright were THE COMPLETE LIST of Dixiecrats. Total of TWO (2). They ran for no other offices, just POTUS and VPOTUS.
Wright didn't hold office again; he ran once for Governor and lost the primary. Thurmond did, as I just outlined above.
Your point that racism is not the defining narrative of those elections, that it was name recognition and not the issue of racism, is a very good one.
The citation of name recognition refers to how Strom Thurmond was able for the first in history to win a Senate seat by election as a write-in, indeed one of only two Senators to ever do that, the other being the more recent Lisa Murkowski in Alaska after losing the Republican nomination ---- who again, like Thurmond, did that successfully because of name recognition. Thurmond had been the state's governor and made major headlines by walking out of the Democrats and running against them for POTUS. Murkowski had already been a Senator, was the incumbent, AND her father had been both Senator and Governor, so she not only benefited from name recognition in her write-in campaign, it also helped her get into office in the first place.
NEITHER of those events has anything to do with racism. The necessary first step of any political campaign is name recognition, and the more a candy has of that the more votes they'll get, period. There are a whole lot of low-info voters for whom name recognition is literally all there is. "I've heard of this guy, therefore he gets my vote -- never heard of the other one".
Indeed, your point is very, very close to mine, where I pointed out, in the last election of George Wallace, that his voters were NOT turned off by his flipping on the segregation issue, that that election, and thus others, were NOT about racism, as dishonest liberals always claim.
Elections are first and foremost about name recognition. That's why Joe Biden exists as a candidate. That's why Doornail Rump got the votes he did. That's why a Bush brother and a Clinton spouse were in the running too.
The myth of the Southern White voter, let alone ALL American white voters, being consumed by Evul Racism Hatred, and what have you,
What "myth" is that? I don't remember posting any such idea. All of the above was about candidates, not voters.
is ironically LIBERALS, being evil and racist and full of hate for a race.
It is impossible for LIBERALS --- didn't know that was an acronym --- to be "racist". The Prime Directive "all men are created equal" rules that out.
I guess I must say, OTHER liberals now, since you have finally seen the light. GOOD FOR YOU.
I've 'seen' nothing new. I've been saying the same things all along.
I look forward to your help in speaking the truth into their universe of lies.
That's what I do here. It's an honest job but somebody's gotta do it.
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