JoeB131
Diamond Member
No... sorry, it was Democrats. Republicans were more liberal back then but they had to be, the Democrats were so racist. I will invite anyone to go back and look at the votes on civil rights... it was the Republican support that passed it. Democrats were split.
It doesn't matter. GOLDWATER opposed it. He was the candidate in 1964. He opposed it and only won his home state and 5 Racist cracker Southern States. Sides were picked on this issue, and you guys picked the wrong one.
There is no record of this "mass exodus" from the Democrat party to the Republican party. Aside from Strom Thurman, you don't have any examples. You people KEPT your racists, gave them some sort of fucked up "amnesty" or something by claiming the had "repented" and then started blaming racism on Republicans. George Wallace, Lester Maddox and Robert Byrd were all racists who died life-long Democrats. Byrd, most recently, was celebrated as a Democrat party ICON!
I think you miss the point. it isn't individual politicians, it's the VOTERS. The Democrats said they would no longer support Segregation, and all those deep south states became bastions of Republicans... That's the "mass exodus", not the senile old politician who kept getting returned to office after getting with the program because it's nigh near impossible to vote people out.
We won't even get into the Kennedy's and what a bunch of racist fucks they were. RFK had his FBI crawling all over MLK and probably was behind his assassination.
So let me get this straight. RFK stopped being attorney general in 1964, where he had a very rocky relationship with J. Edgar Hoover (a Republican AND a racist) but he was responsible for the FBI assassinating him in 1968. Ummmmm.... okay. Are you drinking the same stuff Dale Smith is?
And Nixon's "Southern Strategy" yielded 32% of the black vote from working-class Southerners. The racists all voted for George Wallace... the Democrat-turned-Dixiecrat. Nixon's 1972 Administration featured many prominent black faces like Senator Edward Brooke, Earl Kennedy, Nathan Wright, Clarence Townes and Arthur Fletcher.... hardly sounds like he was a flaming racist to me.
Uh, no, Nixon won 32% of the black vote in 1960, when he was riding on Ike's sensible coat-tails. By 1972, with the Southern Strategy in full swing, it was down to single digits.
This chart tells the tale.
The ironic thing is that blacks started to warm up to the GOP in 2004 due to George W. Bush making a good effort. But the way you guys lost your shit over Obama has probably set you back another generation.
I know exactly how racist is sounds, dickhead.. I was paraphrasing the Progressives who are RACIST!
Clearly, you don't understand the concept of paraphrasing. Paraphrasing means you repeat something they ACTUALLY SAID. Just not verbatim.
But there are a lot of concepts that are lost on you, buddy.