Here’s Proof That the Modern Day GOP Built Itself on Racism

[mudwhistle]

You lefties spend generations lying about the GOP as being the Party of Racism and then use our low levels of Minority Support as "proof" that it is our fault.

Those are interns .. the party can choose whatever interns they want.

I suppose we 'lefties' told republicans to choose virtually all white interns.

Your argument is absolutely ridiculous.

You are a moron.

This reflects very high rates of minority identification as Democrats.

You just demonstrated the behavior I called you on.

You are citing the low rate of minority republicans as "proof" of republican racism.

What it is proof of is generations of effecting lying and race baiting by the Left.

YOu are tearing this nation apart.

You lefties spend generations lying about the GOP as being the Party of Racism and then use our low levels of Minority Support as "proof" that it is our fault.

Those are interns .. the party can choose whatever interns they want.

I suppose we 'lefties' told republicans to choose virtually all white interns.

Your argument is absolutely ridiculous.

You are a moron.

This reflects very high rates of minority identification as Democrats.

You just demonstrated the behavior I called you on.

You are citing the low rate of minority republicans as "proof" of republican racism.

What it is proof of is generations of effecting lying and race baiting by the Left.

YOu are tearing this nation apart.

YOU just demonstrated why Blacks, Asians, Jews, Muslims, Hispanics .. and no other non-white demographic in America votes for republicans in the majority .. not one.

Of course in your pea-brain head, that's just everybody else's fault .. republicans claim no responsibility for its own fate .. lefties did it.

Question dummy .. did lefties tell republicans to dump its black support in favor of chasing racists in the Southern Strategy? African-Americans were once overwhelmingly republican .. but of course republicans had nothing at all to do with losing that support.

YOU are why blacks and nobody else but old angry white men vote for republicans in the majority.

thanks

Bullshit.

The media is why blacks vote for Democrats, not anything Republicans have done.

Did you know that Democrats are busy destroying the institutions of this country in hopes of crashing the economy and thusly destroying the economic stability of this society. This is why they coddle criminals, literally celebrating them at the same time they're attacking hard working law abiding citizens. Who will suffer more than the poor if they are successful?

Moronic .. as usual. :0)

But the good news is that it doesn't matter what you think or who you think is responsible for the demise of the Republican Party. It's going to happen anyway .. and that is all that matters to me.

thanks again :0)

What's gonna happen?

I'll tell you what's gonna happen dumbass, the government can't tax enough to pay the benefits of people on fix-incomes collecting Social Security and welfare. You'll be living in tents and standing in soups lines. Let the Democrats spend and spend bringing millions of refugees here to vote for them. They'll cut off the poor and force them to eat what they want them to eat, live where they want them to live. No more air-conditioning for us poverty strickened Middle-class assholes. Only members can have climate control in their homes. You won't be able to afford a car, so get used to walking asshole. And once you reach a certain age and you're no longer useful, they'll cut off your medical and just give you a pill.....better yet, just off yourself because there isn't enough free shit to go around.

 

[Uncensored2008]

From Lincoln until roundabout 1958.

Izzatrite G-tard?

Are you especially fond of Lincoln's speech on the need for free federal housing? Perhaps the Garfield plan to directly tax business in order to redistribute wealth to particular voter blocs? Perhaps the Taft plan mandate national abortion rights? The Coolidge call to outlaw religious expression on sacred, government ground?

Liberal, huh? You wouldn't be another fucktarded lying democrat, would you?

In 1958, each party had about an equal amount of conservatives and liberals. Then the Democratic Party began shifting left while the Republican Party began shifting right.

Nixon's Southern Strategy accelerated that shift.

Is that what the Soros hate sites tell you, G-Tard?

 

[Norman]

Democrats have enslaved the black to their plantation in order to receive just a few votes. They have thrown the black fathers out of the families and made the population dependent on failing government welfare. As result, the black are doing worse than during slavery according to many statistics.

Democrats are the racist party. As could possibly be guessed from the name, they are willing to do anything to generate just a few votes. Throwing the black under the bus would do just that.

 

[mudwhistle]

Ok why did blacks switch to the democrat party?
Name the last democrat more conservatism very than the Republican in a presidential.race?

Let's start with those two

They switched to the Democratic party (not democrat party, idiot) because the Democratic Party became the party of liberalism. Previously, the Republican Party was the party of liberalism.

When? Was the Republican party the party of liberalism?

From Lincoln until roundabout 1958.

In 1958, each party had about an equal amount of conservatives and liberals. Then the Democratic Party began shifting left while the Republican Party began shifting right.

Nixon's Southern Strategy accelerated that shift.

Waiiiit...so the Republican party was the party of.liberalism, but both parties had an equal number of conservatives and liberals....sounds.like backtracking

I will use small words. Just for you.

It was a sliding scale. The Republican party was mostly liberal, but over time some right wing ideas began taking hold. Little by little, the GOP became less and less liberal.

The Democratic party was mostly conservative, but over time some left wing ideas began taking hold. Little by little, the Democratic party became less and less conservative.

In 1958, the parties were about equally balanced.

Got it now?

Now since they were equal.....when was the last time the Republican prese de entitled candidate was more liberal than the democrat?

Nixon was very liberal. He created the EPA. He established relations with Red China. He enacted wage and price controls. He closed the gold window.

Hey, look at this: Liberal Republican Party

Actually the Republican Party didn't move to the right......Democrats just went way left. They co-opted blacks and figured out a way to gain their support without really giving them anything that benefits them.

 

[buckeye45_73]

Ok why did blacks switch to the democrat party?
Name the last democrat more conservatism very than the Republican in a presidential.race?

Let's start with those two

They switched to the Democratic party (not democrat party, idiot) because the Democratic Party became the party of liberalism. Previously, the Republican Party was the party of liberalism.

When? Was the Republican party the party of liberalism?

From Lincoln until roundabout 1958.

In 1958, each party had about an equal amount of conservatives and liberals. Then the Democratic Party began shifting left while the Republican Party began shifting right.

Nixon's Southern Strategy accelerated that shift.

Waiiiit...so the Republican party was the party of.liberalism, but both parties had an equal number of conservatives and liberals....sounds.like backtracking

I will use small words. Just for you.

It was a sliding scale. The Republican party was mostly liberal, but over time some right wing ideas began taking hold. Little by little, the GOP became less and less liberal.

The Democratic party was mostly conservative, but over time some left wing ideas began taking hold. Little by little, the Democratic party became less and less conservative.

In 1958, the parties were about equally balanced.

Got it now?

Now since they were equal.....when was the last time the Republican prese de entitled candidate was more liberal than the democrat?

Nixon was very liberal. He created the EPA. He established relations with Red China. He enacted wage and price controls. He closed the gold window.

Hey, look at this: Liberal Republican Party

Bush created medicare d....
But conservatives controlled the republicsn.party most of its existance. How do I know, well Horace Greeley ran for president as a gasp liberal republican in the 1880s...against......gasp a.republican.
The point is the southern strategy is bullshit. Blacks left the Republican Party for FDR'S party even though they had racists including FDR run it. Why........welfare!!!!!
Now republicans were conservative well before 1958 and we're run by them for decades......even Lincoln had to get their help to pass the 13th amendment.

So stop the switch bullshit.
The racists stayed.democrat by over 98 percent.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I will use small words. Just for you.

It was a sliding scale. The Republican party was mostly liberal, but over time some right wing ideas began taking hold. Little by little, the GOP became less and less liberal.

The Democratic party was mostly conservative, but over time some left wing ideas began taking hold. Little by little, the Democratic party became less and less conservative.

In 1958, the parties were about equally balanced.

Got it now?

Now since they were equal.....when was the last time the Republican prese de entitled candidate was more liberal than the democrat?

Nixon was very liberal. He created the EPA. He established relations with Red China. He enacted wage and price controls. He closed the gold window.

Hey, look at this: Liberal Republican Party

Repeating flaccid lies is your way, you are a leftist democrat after all. However, your absurd lies remain just that, lies.

Fucking G-Tard...

 

[g5000]

From Lincoln until roundabout 1958.

Izzatrite G-tard?

Are you especially fond of Lincoln's speech on the need for free federal housing? Perhaps the Garfield plan to directly tax business in order to redistribute wealth to particular voter blocs? Perhaps the Taft plan mandate national abortion rights? The Coolidge call to outlaw religious expression on sacred, government ground?

Liberal, huh? You wouldn't be another fucktarded lying democrat, would you?

It can't be helped if you are too stupid to know liberalism is not only about those things. I don't think you have a clue what classical liberalism is.

You are obviously oblivious to the federal expansion of power under Lincoln. The Homestead Act, the re-establishment of the National Bank, etc.

In 1958, each party had about an equal amount of conservatives and liberals. Then the Democratic Party began shifting left while the Republican Party began shifting right.

Nixon's Southern Strategy accelerated that shift.

Is that what the Soros hate sites tell you, G-Tard?

No, it is what history tells us. It is what the facts tell us.

Your propaganda outlets heavily depend on your ignorance of history and facts.

 

[Pogo]

The Southern Strategy turned the Deep South from blue to red. The Democratic Party's right wing conservatives began rebelling against the liberal wing of their party during FDR's administration.

FDR's right wing conservative Vice President, John Garner of Texas, was so fed up with FDR's liberal policies that he ran against FDR for the Democratic nomination in 1940. He went down in defeat and returned to Texas. FDR replaced his VP with Henry Wallace.

In the 1948 election, the Democratic Party suffered a three way split, with Strom Thurmond leading the right wing conservatives into forming the States' Rights Democratic Party in direct opposition to Truman's campaign.

States Rights. That right there indicates the conservatism of that wing of the party. The states righters wanted to preserve Jim Crow and white supremacy.

Strom Thurmond later gave up on the Democratic Party's liberalism and became a leading conservative of the Republican Party.

The leader of the Democratic conservative coalition in the Senate was Richard Russell. He kept every piece of civil rights legislation from being passed for decades. And he was as right wing conservative as it gets. The dipshits who focus on the fact these southerners were Democrats are deliberately kept ignorant of the fact they were far right conservatives. And they make themselves look like damned fools in their ignorance every time they reach back into our history of which they know NOTHING to point out the party affiliation of the far right wing southerners.

No one was ever sure what Lyndon Johnson's political bent was. When he was around liberals, he talked like a liberal. When he was around conservatives, he talked like a conservative. He was as weasely and slimy a politician as it gets. But he was also brilliant, and got himself into the good graces of the House Democratic Leader/Speaker (Sam Rayburn), and the leader of the Senate Democrats (Richard Russell).

Russell believed Johnson to be a conservative, and made LBJ the Senate Majority Leader in LBJ's first term. This violated more than a century's tradition of seniority. However, the Majority Leader position at that time was a figurehead position and not one anyone wanted. Majority Leaders were mocked for their ineffectiveness. All the power actually rested with Richard Russell.

Russell groomed LBJ for the Presidency, but LBJ was outmaneuvered by JFK. JFK then picked LBJ as his running mate in order to win the Southern conservative vote, since he knew LBJ was Russell's boy.

JFK proved to be too liberal for the Southerners. This is why JFK traveled to Texas that fateful November of 1963. He went to meet the Governor of Texas, John Connally, because Connally was the leader of the Southern conservative faction that was breaking away from the Democrats.

It was also suspected that JFK was going to dump LBJ for his second term run and was considering Connally for his running mate. Again, to win the conservative Democratic vote.



Anyway, the year 1958 is probably the year when the Republican and Democratic parties had an equal balance of conservatives and liberals in both parties.

After that, the Democrats began shifting left, and the Republicans began shifting right.

Nixon's Southern Strategy was greatly responsible for the acceleration of that shift.

By 1968, you Communists took full control of the democratic party - and have held control since.

And here we see the intellectual bandwidth of the tards is equal to that of a bumper sticker.

To far right wing dipshits like yourself, everyone is to the left. Even conservatives like myself.

But at least you got the political orientation of the Left correct this time, instead of conflating them with Nazis, who are right wing.


Here, let me bumper stickerize it for you.

Extreme Left: Communists.

Extreme Right: Nazis.

Incorrect commies and Nazis and fascist wee all progressives. Mussolini was a socialist

What is the effective difference between Stalin and Hitler.......answer nothing.

Bullshit.
The rise of fascism effectively killed the Progressives. And Mussolini was as fascist as there is --- he in effect invented the wold.

 

[Pogo]

The usual “go-to” rhetoric from many conservatives and Republicans regarding racism harkens back to the fact that during the days of the Civil War, the creation and rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the decades of segregation, the Democratic party was mostly behind all of that.

Well, that much is true; there’s no denying that Democrats were once a party driven by white supremacy and overrun with racists.

The problem, of course, is that there’s a distinction which is often overlooked by these modern day Republicans who often use this rhetoric: When the Democratic party was the party of racism, they were considered conservatives while Republicans were considered the liberals. It’s why Republicans mostly flourished in the North while Democrats ruled the South.

That all began to change around the mid-40’s during President Truman’s time in office. He was the first Democratic president who really began to push civil rights into the Democratic platform. It was a move which was so controversial among Southern Democrats that it briefly spawned the “Dixiecrats” in 1948, which was a segregationist party that picked renowned racist Strom Thurmond as its presidential candidate, winning the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia.

I would like to point out that those are all former Confederate states and are currently states considered “strongly Republican.”

By the way, the staunch racist and segregationist Thurmond, who was furious that Democrats were embracing equality, denounced his allegiance to the party in 1964 and joined the Republicans. You know, the same year the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed, officially ending segregation. This was also around the same time that the GOP was implementing what’s known as the “Southern Strategy” – a strategic ploy to pander to white racism to lure in voters as more African-Americans began aligning with Democrats.


Interesting fact: Between the Senate and the House, only 9 of the 124 politicians from “Confederate states” (all Democrats) voted for the Civil Rights Act. It didn’t get a single Southern Republican vote – not one.

There’s a reason why when we look at our nation’s history, practically every state that fought for the Confederacy, and in turn supported slavery (and are today “red”/Republican states), are also the same ones that:

• Opposed women’s suffrage.
  
• Supported segregation.
  
• Banned interracial marriage.
  
• Opposed the Civil Rights Act.

As The Guardian points out concerning the vote on the Civil Rights Act:

You can see that geography was far more predictive of voting coalitions on the Civil Rights than party affiliation. ​

And why is that? Because this was right in the middle of the transition where Republicans began to embrace racism and Democrats were pushing for civil rights and equality. And once again, the “constant” in determining which states were on the “right side of history” on these issues came down to who fought for the North and who fought for the South – regardless of party affiliation.

While some Democrats remained in the South through the 70’s and 80’s, most of them were leftovers from the past as Republicans continued to gain a stronghold over most of these former Confederate states. And as we all know, Republicans are now the unheralded political force in most of the former Confederate South.

So, it’s not exactly difficult to follow the historical pattern that began during the 40’s to see where the dynamics of the parties switched, as Democrats embraced equality and civil rights while the Republican party was quick to embrace the racism and hate Democrats were leaving behind.

That’s why when I encounter one of these Republicans who ignores this clear historic shift between the parties (which is almost always) I ask these three questions:

1. What party do white supremacists and the KKK vote for today?
   
2. Which party elected former Grand Wizard of the KKK, David Duke, in 1989?
   
3. Which party had one of its highest ranking member speak in front of a white supremacist group in 2001?

Typically you won’t get many of these folks to give you a straight answer to any of those, if they’ll even answer them at all. They usually just deflect back to 50+ years ago because they know the answers to those questions are all the same: The Republican party.

Oh, and let me debunk a quick myth that’s been going around about Bill Clinton and a campaign button from his 1992 election depicting the Confederate flag. While the button apparently did exist, it was never sanctioned by the Clinton campaign and was basically just something someone made on their own. It “proves” nothing because it has no ties or affiliation with the former president’s campaign in any way.

Like I’ve said plenty of times before, denial is a powerful thing. Conservatives will continue to cling to their myths, folklores and delusions because that’s what they’ve been told their whole lives and no amount of factual evidence will ever matter to the overwhelming majority of these people.

But the indisputable facts remain that practically every state that fought for the Confederacy, and supported some of the most horrific policies in our nation’s history, today are all “strongly Republican,” and the modern day GOP is supported by white supremacist groups and the KKK.

And while conservatives can twist all of this however they like (and I’m sure they will) that doesn’t change the reality they seem determined to pretend doesn’t exist.

No Longer the Party of Lincoln: Here's Proof That the Modern Day GOP Built Itself on Racism

Although Democrats were once a party driven by white supremacy and racism - the Party of Lincoln now owns that legacy.

Ok why did blacks switch to the democrat party?
Name the last democrat more conservatism very than the Republican in a presidential.race?

Let's start with those two

They switched to the Democratic party (not democrat party, idiot) because the Democratic Party became the party of liberalism. Previously, the Republican Party was the party of liberalism.

When was the Republican party the party of liberalism?

From its founding in 1854 until a gradual shift at the turn of the next (19th to 20th) century.

See post 63.

 

[buckeye45_73]

Liberal Republican Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Southern Strategy turned the Deep South from blue to red. The Democratic Party's right wing conservatives began rebelling against the liberal wing of their party during FDR's administration.

FDR's right wing conservative Vice President, John Garner of Texas, was so fed up with FDR's liberal policies that he ran against FDR for the Democratic nomination in 1940. He went down in defeat and returned to Texas. FDR replaced his VP with Henry Wallace.

In the 1948 election, the Democratic Party suffered a three way split, with Strom Thurmond leading the right wing conservatives into forming the States' Rights Democratic Party in direct opposition to Truman's campaign.

States Rights. That right there indicates the conservatism of that wing of the party. The states righters wanted to preserve Jim Crow and white supremacy.

Strom Thurmond later gave up on the Democratic Party's liberalism and became a leading conservative of the Republican Party.

The leader of the Democratic conservative coalition in the Senate was Richard Russell. He kept every piece of civil rights legislation from being passed for decades. And he was as right wing conservative as it gets. The dipshits who focus on the fact these southerners were Democrats are deliberately kept ignorant of the fact they were far right conservatives. And they make themselves look like damned fools in their ignorance every time they reach back into our history of which they know NOTHING to point out the party affiliation of the far right wing southerners.

No one was ever sure what Lyndon Johnson's political bent was. When he was around liberals, he talked like a liberal. When he was around conservatives, he talked like a conservative. He was as weasely and slimy a politician as it gets. But he was also brilliant, and got himself into the good graces of the House Democratic Leader/Speaker (Sam Rayburn), and the leader of the Senate Democrats (Richard Russell).

Russell believed Johnson to be a conservative, and made LBJ the Senate Majority Leader in LBJ's first term. This violated more than a century's tradition of seniority. However, the Majority Leader position at that time was a figurehead position and not one anyone wanted. Majority Leaders were mocked for their ineffectiveness. All the power actually rested with Richard Russell.

Russell groomed LBJ for the Presidency, but LBJ was outmaneuvered by JFK. JFK then picked LBJ as his running mate in order to win the Southern conservative vote, since he knew LBJ was Russell's boy.

JFK proved to be too liberal for the Southerners. This is why JFK traveled to Texas that fateful November of 1963. He went to meet the Governor of Texas, John Connally, because Connally was the leader of the Southern conservative faction that was breaking away from the Democrats.

It was also suspected that JFK was going to dump LBJ for his second term run and was considering Connally for his running mate. Again, to win the conservative Democratic vote.



Anyway, the year 1958 is probably the year when the Republican and Democratic parties had an equal balance of conservatives and liberals in both parties.

After that, the Democrats began shifting left, and the Republicans began shifting right.

Nixon's Southern Strategy was greatly responsible for the acceleration of that shift.

By 1968, you Communists took full control of the democratic party - and have held control since.

And here we see the intellectual bandwidth of the tards is equal to that of a bumper sticker.

To far right wing dipshits like yourself, everyone is to the left. Even conservatives like myself.

But at least you got the political orientation of the Left correct this time, instead of conflating them with Nazis, who are right wing.


Here, let me bumper stickerize it for you.

Extreme Left: Communists.

Extreme Right: Nazis.

Incorrect commies and Nazis and fascist wee all progressives. Mussolini was a socialist

What is the effective difference between Stalin and Hitler.......answer nothing.

Bullshit.
The rise of fascism effectively killed the Progressives. And Mussolini was as fascist as there is --- he in effect invented the wold.

Very true and he was a socialist.....fascist were very progressive.
Euthanasia....check
Eugenics...check
Government could improve you lives....check
More village than individual......check
Sooooo...thanks for helping out!

 

[mudwhistle]

From Lincoln until roundabout 1958.

Izzatrite G-tard?

Are you especially fond of Lincoln's speech on the need for free federal housing? Perhaps the Garfield plan to directly tax business in order to redistribute wealth to particular voter blocs? Perhaps the Taft plan mandate national abortion rights? The Coolidge call to outlaw religious expression on sacred, government ground?

Liberal, huh? You wouldn't be another fucktarded lying democrat, would you?

It can't be helped if you are too stupid to know liberalism is not only about those things. I don't think you have a clue what classical liberalism is.

You are obviously oblivious to the federal expansion of power under Lincoln. The Homestead Act, the re-establishment of the National Bank, etc.

In 1958, each party had about an equal amount of conservatives and liberals. Then the Democratic Party began shifting left while the Republican Party began shifting right.

Nixon's Southern Strategy accelerated that shift.

Is that what the Soros hate sites tell you, G-Tard?

No, it is what history tells us. It is what the facts tell us.

Your propaganda outlets heavily depend on your ignorance of history and facts.

Calling today's Democrat a liberal shows a glaring lack of understanding of what they really are.

 

[buckeye45_73]

The usual “go-to” rhetoric from many conservatives and Republicans regarding racism harkens back to the fact that during the days of the Civil War, the creation and rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the decades of segregation, the Democratic party was mostly behind all of that.

Well, that much is true; there’s no denying that Democrats were once a party driven by white supremacy and overrun with racists.

The problem, of course, is that there’s a distinction which is often overlooked by these modern day Republicans who often use this rhetoric: When the Democratic party was the party of racism, they were considered conservatives while Republicans were considered the liberals. It’s why Republicans mostly flourished in the North while Democrats ruled the South.

That all began to change around the mid-40’s during President Truman’s time in office. He was the first Democratic president who really began to push civil rights into the Democratic platform. It was a move which was so controversial among Southern Democrats that it briefly spawned the “Dixiecrats” in 1948, which was a segregationist party that picked renowned racist Strom Thurmond as its presidential candidate, winning the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia.

I would like to point out that those are all former Confederate states and are currently states considered “strongly Republican.”

By the way, the staunch racist and segregationist Thurmond, who was furious that Democrats were embracing equality, denounced his allegiance to the party in 1964 and joined the Republicans. You know, the same year the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed, officially ending segregation. This was also around the same time that the GOP was implementing what’s known as the “Southern Strategy” – a strategic ploy to pander to white racism to lure in voters as more African-Americans began aligning with Democrats.


Interesting fact: Between the Senate and the House, only 9 of the 124 politicians from “Confederate states” (all Democrats) voted for the Civil Rights Act. It didn’t get a single Southern Republican vote – not one.

There’s a reason why when we look at our nation’s history, practically every state that fought for the Confederacy, and in turn supported slavery (and are today “red”/Republican states), are also the same ones that:

• Opposed women’s suffrage.
  
• Supported segregation.
  
• Banned interracial marriage.
  
• Opposed the Civil Rights Act.

As The Guardian points out concerning the vote on the Civil Rights Act:

You can see that geography was far more predictive of voting coalitions on the Civil Rights than party affiliation. ​

And why is that? Because this was right in the middle of the transition where Republicans began to embrace racism and Democrats were pushing for civil rights and equality. And once again, the “constant” in determining which states were on the “right side of history” on these issues came down to who fought for the North and who fought for the South – regardless of party affiliation.

While some Democrats remained in the South through the 70’s and 80’s, most of them were leftovers from the past as Republicans continued to gain a stronghold over most of these former Confederate states. And as we all know, Republicans are now the unheralded political force in most of the former Confederate South.

So, it’s not exactly difficult to follow the historical pattern that began during the 40’s to see where the dynamics of the parties switched, as Democrats embraced equality and civil rights while the Republican party was quick to embrace the racism and hate Democrats were leaving behind.

That’s why when I encounter one of these Republicans who ignores this clear historic shift between the parties (which is almost always) I ask these three questions:

1. What party do white supremacists and the KKK vote for today?
   
2. Which party elected former Grand Wizard of the KKK, David Duke, in 1989?
   
3. Which party had one of its highest ranking member speak in front of a white supremacist group in 2001?

Typically you won’t get many of these folks to give you a straight answer to any of those, if they’ll even answer them at all. They usually just deflect back to 50+ years ago because they know the answers to those questions are all the same: The Republican party.

Oh, and let me debunk a quick myth that’s been going around about Bill Clinton and a campaign button from his 1992 election depicting the Confederate flag. While the button apparently did exist, it was never sanctioned by the Clinton campaign and was basically just something someone made on their own. It “proves” nothing because it has no ties or affiliation with the former president’s campaign in any way.

Like I’ve said plenty of times before, denial is a powerful thing. Conservatives will continue to cling to their myths, folklores and delusions because that’s what they’ve been told their whole lives and no amount of factual evidence will ever matter to the overwhelming majority of these people.

But the indisputable facts remain that practically every state that fought for the Confederacy, and supported some of the most horrific policies in our nation’s history, today are all “strongly Republican,” and the modern day GOP is supported by white supremacist groups and the KKK.

And while conservatives can twist all of this however they like (and I’m sure they will) that doesn’t change the reality they seem determined to pretend doesn’t exist.

No Longer the Party of Lincoln: Here's Proof That the Modern Day GOP Built Itself on Racism

Although Democrats were once a party driven by white supremacy and racism - the Party of Lincoln now owns that legacy.

Ok why did blacks switch to the democrat party?
Name the last democrat more conservatism very than the Republican in a presidential.race?

Let's start with those two

They switched to the Democratic party (not democrat party, idiot) because the Democratic Party became the party of liberalism. Previously, the Republican Party was the party of liberalism.

When was the Republican party the party of liberalism?

From its founding in 1854 until a gradual shift at the turn of the next (19th to 20th) century.

See post 63.

Incorrect

Liberal Republican Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They fought the republicans including the famous radical republicans.....conservatives and radical were buds.....liberals not so.much.....oh this was 1872...not even 20 years after the founding

 

[mudwhistle]

From Lincoln until roundabout 1958.

Izzatrite G-tard?

Are you especially fond of Lincoln's speech on the need for free federal housing? Perhaps the Garfield plan to directly tax business in order to redistribute wealth to particular voter blocs? Perhaps the Taft plan mandate national abortion rights? The Coolidge call to outlaw religious expression on sacred, government ground?

Liberal, huh? You wouldn't be another fucktarded lying democrat, would you?

It can't be helped if you are too stupid to know liberalism is not only about those things. I don't think you have a clue what classical liberalism is.

You are obviously oblivious to the federal expansion of power under Lincoln. The Homestead Act, the re-establishment of the National Bank, etc.

In 1958, each party had about an equal amount of conservatives and liberals. Then the Democratic Party began shifting left while the Republican Party began shifting right.

Nixon's Southern Strategy accelerated that shift.

Is that what the Soros hate sites tell you, G-Tard?

No, it is what history tells us. It is what the facts tell us.

Your propaganda outlets heavily depend on your ignorance of history and facts.

Democrat approved history and facts.

A product of our fucked up education system.

Progressive propaganda. Nothing more.

 

[Pogo]

The usual “go-to” rhetoric from many conservatives and Republicans regarding racism harkens back to the fact that during the days of the Civil War, the creation and rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the decades of segregation, the Democratic party was mostly behind all of that.

Well, that much is true; there’s no denying that Democrats were once a party driven by white supremacy and overrun with racists.

The problem, of course, is that there’s a distinction which is often overlooked by these modern day Republicans who often use this rhetoric: When the Democratic party was the party of racism, they were considered conservatives while Republicans were considered the liberals. It’s why Republicans mostly flourished in the North while Democrats ruled the South.

That all began to change around the mid-40’s during President Truman’s time in office. He was the first Democratic president who really began to push civil rights into the Democratic platform. It was a move which was so controversial among Southern Democrats that it briefly spawned the “Dixiecrats” in 1948, which was a segregationist party that picked renowned racist Strom Thurmond as its presidential candidate, winning the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia.

I would like to point out that those are all former Confederate states and are currently states considered “strongly Republican.”

By the way, the staunch racist and segregationist Thurmond, who was furious that Democrats were embracing equality, denounced his allegiance to the party in 1964 and joined the Republicans. You know, the same year the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed, officially ending segregation. This was also around the same time that the GOP was implementing what’s known as the “Southern Strategy” – a strategic ploy to pander to white racism to lure in voters as more African-Americans began aligning with Democrats.


Interesting fact: Between the Senate and the House, only 9 of the 124 politicians from “Confederate states” (all Democrats) voted for the Civil Rights Act. It didn’t get a single Southern Republican vote – not one.

There’s a reason why when we look at our nation’s history, practically every state that fought for the Confederacy, and in turn supported slavery (and are today “red”/Republican states), are also the same ones that:

• Opposed women’s suffrage.
  
• Supported segregation.
  
• Banned interracial marriage.
  
• Opposed the Civil Rights Act.

As The Guardian points out concerning the vote on the Civil Rights Act:

You can see that geography was far more predictive of voting coalitions on the Civil Rights than party affiliation. ​

And why is that? Because this was right in the middle of the transition where Republicans began to embrace racism and Democrats were pushing for civil rights and equality. And once again, the “constant” in determining which states were on the “right side of history” on these issues came down to who fought for the North and who fought for the South – regardless of party affiliation.

While some Democrats remained in the South through the 70’s and 80’s, most of them were leftovers from the past as Republicans continued to gain a stronghold over most of these former Confederate states. And as we all know, Republicans are now the unheralded political force in most of the former Confederate South.

So, it’s not exactly difficult to follow the historical pattern that began during the 40’s to see where the dynamics of the parties switched, as Democrats embraced equality and civil rights while the Republican party was quick to embrace the racism and hate Democrats were leaving behind.

That’s why when I encounter one of these Republicans who ignores this clear historic shift between the parties (which is almost always) I ask these three questions:

1. What party do white supremacists and the KKK vote for today?
   
2. Which party elected former Grand Wizard of the KKK, David Duke, in 1989?
   
3. Which party had one of its highest ranking member speak in front of a white supremacist group in 2001?

Typically you won’t get many of these folks to give you a straight answer to any of those, if they’ll even answer them at all. They usually just deflect back to 50+ years ago because they know the answers to those questions are all the same: The Republican party.

Oh, and let me debunk a quick myth that’s been going around about Bill Clinton and a campaign button from his 1992 election depicting the Confederate flag. While the button apparently did exist, it was never sanctioned by the Clinton campaign and was basically just something someone made on their own. It “proves” nothing because it has no ties or affiliation with the former president’s campaign in any way.

Like I’ve said plenty of times before, denial is a powerful thing. Conservatives will continue to cling to their myths, folklores and delusions because that’s what they’ve been told their whole lives and no amount of factual evidence will ever matter to the overwhelming majority of these people.

But the indisputable facts remain that practically every state that fought for the Confederacy, and supported some of the most horrific policies in our nation’s history, today are all “strongly Republican,” and the modern day GOP is supported by white supremacist groups and the KKK.

And while conservatives can twist all of this however they like (and I’m sure they will) that doesn’t change the reality they seem determined to pretend doesn’t exist.

No Longer the Party of Lincoln: Here's Proof That the Modern Day GOP Built Itself on Racism

Although Democrats were once a party driven by white supremacy and racism - the Party of Lincoln now owns that legacy.

Ok why did blacks switch to the democrat party?
Name the last democrat more conservatism very than the Republican in a presidential.race?

Let's start with those two

They switched to the Democratic party (not democrat party, idiot) because the Democratic Party became the party of liberalism. Previously, the Republican Party was the party of liberalism.

When was the Republican party the party of liberalism?

From its founding in 1854 until a gradual shift at the turn of the next (19th to 20th) century.

See post 63.

Incorrect

Liberal Republican Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They fought the republicans including the famous radical republicans.....conservatives and radical were buds.....liberals not so.much.....oh this was 1872...not even 20 years after the founding

Who the fuck is "they"? Can you not construct a coherent sentence?

What the fuck do you think "Liberal Republican" means? It was the more Liberal wing of an already Liberal party.

And don't sit on your ass and go "incorrect" after being referred to a post you could not possibly have read in three minutes.

 

[Pogo]

But conservatives controlled the republicsn.party most of its existance. How do I know, well Horace Greeley ran for president as a gasp liberal republican in the 1880s...against......gasp a.republican.

That doesn't make your case. Again, Greeley was simply a more Liberal Republican than the party at large.

Are you actually not aware that within a political party there are variant flavors? REALLY?

The point is the southern strategy is bullshit.

Once again --- we already debunked this. Learn to read.

There was no "Southern Strategy" in the sense of a outreach to racist voters.

Actually it's already been articulated, and apologized for:

Articulation:

From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that...but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.[1 --- Kevin Phillips, Nixon strategist, 1970​

"You start out in 1954 by saying, "******, ******, ******." By 1968 you can't say "******" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "******, ******."" --- Lee Atwater, Republican Party strategist, 1981​

Concession:

"Republican candidates often have prospered by ignoring black voters and even by exploiting racial tensions," and, "by the '70s and into the '80s and '90s, the Democratic Party solidified its gains in the African-American community, and we Republicans did not effectively reach out. Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong."[79][80] -- Ken Mehlman, RNC Chair, 2005
​

All here --- Southern Strategy Not a secret.

 

[Uncensored2008]

It can't be helped if you are too stupid to know liberalism is not only about those things. I don't think you have a clue what classical liberalism is.

It can't be helped that you're such a fucking liar, I mean you're a democrat.

IF we speak of classical liberals, then what does that have to do with you democrats?

Not a fucking thing, G-Tard.

I can give you lots of examples that Lincoln was not a classical liberal, jailing of reporters, the draft, etc. However that has little to do with your absurd lies.

Like most democrats, you attempt to create a fiction that the Republicans of Lincoln are just like you scumbag Bolsheviks and that today's Republicans are somehow like the Aristocratic Antebellum democrat. O(f course you're lying, that's ALL you do, you're a democrat, a pile of shit.

You are obviously oblivious to the federal expansion of power under Lincoln. The Homestead Act, the re-establishment of the National Bank, etc.

As always, your "facts" have utterly no fact to them. So how did manifest destiny "expand federal powers?"

No, it is what history tells us. It is what the facts tell us.

Your propaganda outlets heavily depend on your ignorance of history and facts.

Facts and you are never to be found together in one place, G-Tard. Now I have little doubt you are well versed in Howard Zinn's "peoples history," but as far as accurate history, you are quite lacking.

Just another lying leftist.

 

[Clementine]

I think she called blacks undesirables when she did indeed found PP, she was a big eugenicist, and blacks disgusted her .....weeds in the garden that must be removed....

That is exactly what she said. They were human weeds that needed to be eliminated. Lesser beings. There is ample footage of her saying such things over and over. To this day, the majority of abortions are done on minorities.

The left is forever trying to erase their own history because it contradicts what they claim to be about now. They haven't done shit for minorities except ensure they remain desperate. Luring them into dependency only kept them down, uneducated, and incapable of succeeding. It destroyed many families and this was the goal because marrying the baby daddy only keeps them off welfare. Statistics prove that marriage is a big deterrent to ending up on the liberal plantation. Welfare and other programs for single moms encourages the women to have babies out of wedlock. That is exactly what the Democrats planned ages ago after the slaves were freed. They knew that if they lured people onto the plantation, they would never bite the hand that feeds them or try to go it alone. Not a damn thing has changed. They have increasing numbers of people, all races, dependent on them and that is how they want to keep it. That is why the constant rhetoric about racism around every corner and the evil 1%. They fear that minorities will forsake big government and learn that they can leave the plantation. That is the biggest nightmare for liberals who need people dependent on them for survival. They are forever preaching that minorities cannot possibly make it on their own and they don't want them to try.

 

[buckeye45_73]

Ok why did blacks switch to the democrat party?
Name the last democrat more conservatism very than the Republican in a presidential.race?

Let's start with those two

They switched to the Democratic party (not democrat party, idiot) because the Democratic Party became the party of liberalism. Previously, the Republican Party was the party of liberalism.

When was the Republican party the party of liberalism?

From its founding in 1854 until a gradual shift at the turn of the next (19th to 20th) century.

See post 63.

Incorrect

Liberal Republican Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They fought the republicans including the famous radical republicans.....conservatives and radical were buds.....liberals not so.much.....oh this was 1872...not even 20 years after the founding

Who the fuck is "they"? Can you not construct a coherent sentence?

What the fuck do you think "Liberal Republican" means? It was the more Liberal wing of an already Liberal party.

And don't sit on your ass and go "incorrect" after being referred to a post you could not possibly have read in three minutes.

Hahahaha....I already read the post dipshit.
I love you dancing for me.
It was called the liberal republicans, because the other parts of the party were moderate and conservative.....again showing the southern strategy was and is a hoax.

Aka conservative republicans were and are for civil rights, just not the crazy ass progressive shit peddled today.

 

[mudwhistle]

I guess blacks aren't aware of the body-count Democrats are stacking up in Chicago since Obama took office that rivals the Iraq War.

Crime in Chicago -- Chicago Tribune

 

[Pogo]

Hahahaha....I already read the post dipshit.
I love you dancing for me.
It was called the liberal republicans, because the other parts of the party were moderate and conservative.

Obviously you didn't, or you couldn't have shot yourself in the foot as you just did.

And no, that's not a logical conclusion at all; it simply means the LR were MORE "Liberal" than the rest of the RP. It doesn't make them "conservative" just as the presence of California doesn't make Nevada "the east coast". Apparently this beyond-binary thinking process is beyond your capability.

....again showing the southern strategy was and is a hoax.

And once again, the name of a political faction from 1872 shows absolutely NOTHING about what took place a hundred years later. And I already laid this out in 175, in the involved Republicans' own words.

You lose, troll.