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Bullshit. A few switched, but most of them stayed Democrats and simply died out over the years. Robert Byrd and George Wallace for example. But, Republicans still keep to their principles. Democrats instead decided that they could get more out of minorities by telling them they are on their side.....but in fact, continued screwing them in the ass.Republicans rarely protest......and Democrats wear hoods......history proved that.Again, why are anti-Trump protesters wearing
Klan hoods to Trump rallys?
First of all, are you sure any these protestors are not Republicans? They are the ones in a panic trying to stop The Donald....
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Yes I,'m sure!
LEAD ORGANIZER Who Shut Down Hwy to TRUMP RALLY Is "Soros Fellow" from New Orleans - The Gateway Pundit
That doesn't mean that none of the protestors were Republicans......
Another History denier.........yeah, we all know that the racists were Democrats.....back in the 40s, 50s and 60s.....then they switched. Conservatives try to deny the fact that most of the Democratic racists switched over to the Republican party when the Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act.....many Republicans even try to take credit for the Civil Rights Act. The fact is the Republican party is the one that tries to disenfranchise blacks and discriminates against minorities. Trump supporters are racist, they shout out their bigoted remarks and are proud to be racists....but here you are, arguing that Democrats are the ones that are racist... either you are really dumb or you are trying really hard to deny reality.
It's almost senseless to debate with conservatives when they live in a bubble and have their own idea about is reality.
The South has now shifted from being the conservative Democratic stronghold to a Republican base and southern politicians bring the baggage of excessively conservative social and greedy irresponsible economic policies into the Republican fold.
Race has always been at the core of Southern politics and the South has always closed ranks against any efforts for equality. This, in spite of the fact that it was a “white” Democratic southern politician, Lyndon Johnson, who passed the most important civil rights legislation in the country’s history.
How the South Became Republican: It’s About Race
Yeah right....that's why the South used to be all blue.....and now it's all red.....because all the racist people moved out and the embracing Republicans moved in..... you're so pathetic, you can't even come up with a believable theory. That's why Republicans embrace Affirmative Action, why Republican Trump supporters are the ones screaming out bigoted remarks....
I know you know better, but like a good conservative Republican, you push the myth you all created that Democrats were the ones that were the racist South and it is still the same, except the South used to be blue and now it is red, so your myth doesn't even make sense. You can continue to deny History, but it won't change it and most people are not gullible to believe the Republican's revised version of History.
To understand why the Republican Party has come to dominate the South—and why that strength may now be waning—you have to go back to the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln and Northern abolitionists ran the Republican Party in the 1860s, while the Democrats drew much of their strength from the slave states. After Reconstruction, when the Southern states were left to their own devices, the Democratic Party ruled with an iron fist—and Jim Crow. Their reign lasted nearly a century.
The GOP in Dixie, political scientist V.O. Key Jr. observed in 1949, more closely resembled a cult or a conspiracy than a political party. In 1950, of the 127 members of Congress from the former Confederate states, just two were Republican.
But the Democrats’ stranglehold on the South was already loosening. Perhaps no one embodied, or facilitated, the South’s transformation from the Democrats’ Solid South to the regional anchor of today’s Republican Party as much as Strom Thurmond.
After Democratic President Harry Truman embraced civil rights ahead of his re-election bid in 1948, Southern Democrats broke from the party in protest. They wanted to send a message to Democrats in Washington: Either civil rights go, or the South goes.
A group of Southern lawmakers formed the “Dixiecrats,” who were devoted to states’ rights, and nominated Thurmond, the former Democratic segregationist governor of South Carolina, for president. On a hot day in Birmingham, Alabama, Thurmond made his first speech to Southern deserters as their presumptive nominee.
“There’s not enough troops in the Army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches,” Thurmond told them. That November, he won over a million votes and carried four states in the Deep South.
Thurmond and his fellow Dixiecrats weren’t kidding around. Two months after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in July 1964, Thurmond, by then a U.S. senator, switched parties from Democrat to Republican. That November, five Southern states followed his lead and voted for Barry Goldwater, the Republicans’ ultra-conservative presidential nominee. In 1964, more Southern whites voted Republican than Democrat for the first time. They never went back.
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/07/18/republican-hold-south-may-collapse-257551.html