It took about a generation or more for it to bear full fruit. Byrd was one of the last Dixiecrats who stayed in the Democrat Party all his life. The voters had bolted long before
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Not true. Only two Democrat office holders changed parties. It is true that decent people left the Democrats but the KKK remains part of the military arm of the Dems and Byrd was a major leader of the KKK, which assaulted both former slaves and members of the GOP. Woodrow Wilson revived the KKK after ridding the federal government of black employees appointed by the GOP.
Yep, CMG has it about right - there was no "southern strategy" from Niixon, if any GOP from that time had one, it was Goldwater.
The political realignment of the South last century was probably not due to "racism" even slightly - there have been studies that showed only one percent of Dixiecrats switched to the GOP because of civil rights. It never made much sense, why would the party opposed to the KKK attract disaffected racists in the first place?
It's just garbage leftists tell themselves to make them feel better. But they will believe Nixon had a "southern strategy" to their graves, let them think that.
The political realignment of the South last century was probably not due to "racism" even slightly - there have been studies that showed only one percent of Dixiecrats switched to the GOP because of civil rights. It never made much sense, why would the party opposed to the KKK attract disaffected racists in the first place?
It's just garbage leftists tell themselves to make them feel better. But they will believe Nixon had a "southern strategy" to their graves, let them think that.
Anyone can write a wikipedia article as you well know.
Nixon was not a racist but was pro-black. He wanted to win the middle class votes in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Florida. The old Dixiecrat states went for George Wallace. One of the last Sourhern Democrat dynasties of Landrieu was just recently retired from the Senate. Thurmond and one other were the only ones to change parties. The Democrats were the party of slavery and the KKK, as you should know since you bought cotten from them during the civil war. The Democrats invented Jim Crow, the poll tax, and segregation as well as Dred Scott and John Wilkes Booth. They also advocate abortion and homosexual marriage and cheap labor.
Blacks started voting for FDR although they knew that he was a racist like Woodrow Wilson because of the deprivation of the Great Depression which was more severe here than in the UK and Germany.
The good news is that polling shows rhat Trump has a thirty percent approval rating among blacks who realize the Democrats have controled the big cities for decades and it has destroyed the black community with bad achools, bad housing, cheap wages, high unemployment, and homelessness (58,000 in Los Angeles).
The so-callwd southern strategy is a Democrat lie to hide their slave-owning KKK history.
Like I said, that's your spin. Nothing false, just nowhere near the whole picture.
Well, you don't post any details so I don't know why you think that Democrats suddenly changed their DNA and became Republicans and Republicans suddenly lost their minds and joined the oppressors of humanity. Woodrow Wilson was a hardcore racist Democrat. He fired all of the black civil servants that the GOP had installed in the federal government since the end of the Civil War. He screened the repulsive film Birth of a Nation in the White House, which led to the 20th century revival of the KKK, which is glamorized in the idiotic film that so enthralled the racist Wilson. FDR was also racist and Lyndon Johnson had a life-long membership in the KKK. Nixon confronted some unions, also racists from their beginnings and forced them to accept black members. The AFL-CIO is still very white to this day. Nixon was a Quaker and for all his shortcomings was a traditional abolitionist Republican. I think the best critique of Nixon was that the was a moderate or liberal Republican. Also, Ike and Nixon and sent the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to force integration of the public schools there.
Nixon called his plan a sunbelt plan. The racist Democrats stayed in the Democrat Party and it has only been recently that the GOP has made inroads into the Solid South. Winthrop Rockefeller served as Governor of Arkansas in the sixties and then the state went back to the Democrats. Louisiana endured the Landrieu dynasty until a recent election when they finally lost the Senate seat for the Democrats. Someone probably knows when the other states of the old Confederacy begin to vote Republican but it was long after Nixon. The GOP did not carry any the Solid South from the end of the civil war until one hundred years later. Texas stayed Democrat through Lyndon Johnson except for Tower perhaps. I remember when both Texas and Arkansas were segregated because I saw it with my own eyes. It was Lincoln and the GOP who led the way to abolish slavery and who died in the stupid civil war. As Lincoln said of the Democrats, their philosophy has always been you work and I eat. The Democrats always let you know that they are better than you.
Minorities like Trump; he has the common touch, which there is not one Democrat out there who has the common touch because they have always been the party of plantation owners.
Show to me the "proof" that southern Republicans were card carrying KKK!
So the Democratic party, the one that voted God out of their Platform, who supports baby genocide, and whose way to cure all social ills is by state takover, would be morally superior, is that your take here?
Didn't Thurmond switch? And black voters switched over time to the Democrats, making it more progressive. Over the last 50 years, the Dems have moved gradually to the left and the Republicans more to the right in part in consequence of these changes.
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Nope.
I mentioned Thurmond several posts ago as one of two Democrats who switched parties. Blacks switched parties about 1932 during the Great Depression even though they realized that FDR was a racist. The Dems were always on the left--they admired Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. Wilson admired the KKK and Lyndon Johnson was a life-long member of the KKK. The GOP was instrumental in the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act as the Democrats still had the Solid South and the Solid South was against the Civil Rights Act. More Republicans voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act than Democrats.
Black voters are now leaving the Democrat Party because they realize the history of slavery, Jim Crow, KKK, poll tax before voting, segregation, abortion (which is aimed at blacks) and same-sex marriage are the history of the Democrats. Blacks live mostly in the big cities, which are all under Democrat control. Chicago, a high-crime city like London, has not had a Republican mayor since 1931. Democrats stand for high taxes, low wages, and government control of the economy and other aspects of private life.
It was the GOP who passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the US Constitution without a single Democrat vote and gave rights to blacks.
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Another Democrat lie. It was started in the South by the Democrats after the Civil War. They hanged GOP officials in the South as well as blacks in acts of murderous terror.
It was revived by Woodrow Wilson, a southern Democrat by birth, who greatly admired the KKK and revived it in the 20th century. It still is populated by Democrats although it membership is miniscule.
I don't think you can say with a straight face that the Dems were always on the left: they were the racist conservative states'-righters prior to and after the Civil War
They are now what is called leftist because they always believed in a class society like the UK has with the plantation owners on top and people on the bottom doing all the work with the owners consuming the product. Some Democrats have compared slavery to an early form of welfare, which is more correct than they realized. Martin Van Buren is credited with realizing that immigrants could be held in big city slums at low wages in bad housing with bad food and no opportunity and compelled to vote for the Democrats so that gave rise to Tammy Hall in NYC. So, yes, the Dems were all about leftist oppression. FDR admired Mussolini and Hitler and many, many Democrats were admirers of Stalin.
The black vote had two YUGE leaps to the D - in 1932, they went 58-42 for Herbert Hoover, four years later, they went in reverse for FDR. Then, in 1960, Nixon got about 40% of the black vote, four years later, Goldwater got 8%. The reasons? Welfare state expansion and civil rights legislation.
The South gradually became more and more "Republican" due to different reasons, there was a big urbanization of the South last century and Northerners migrated down there in droves. You are not dealing with the same people, the Dixiecrats just died off, and were hardcore Ds til their deaths - "yellow dog Democrats". During the same time, the Democratic Party split due to civil rights, the Viet Nam war and the cultural war. Wallace capitalized on that, and won the Deep South and only the Deep South in 1968, whereas Herbert Humphrey won Texas. Four years later, every state went to Nixon except his home state and DC. That's no "southern strategy".
Thanks, I knew better. What I should have written is that the law could not have passed without GOP votes although the Dems controlled Congress. The GOP thought that the bill was sloppily written but voted for it anyway in enough numbers so that it could pass. After it passed, it was used for all kinds of things other than black rights, which was what the GOP disliked about the way it was written. The Dems never keep their promises. Maybe you recall, Ken, that the poll tax was abolished sometime during this era. I recall that Texas required a poll tax receipt before you could vote when I lived there and I paid it myself once or twice. As I said before both Texas and Arkansas had segregation in the 1960s.
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