RE: Clerk Defies Supreme Court, Refuses Gay Marriage Licenses
September 24, 2015 at 2:07 am
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2015 at 2:08 am by TheRocketSurgeon.)
(September 23, 2015 at 10:29 pm)Losty Wrote:(September 23, 2015 at 10:15 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I think what he's saying is that the lines are so blurred as to be meaningless. Blood is thicker than water; bigotry is thicker than party denomination.
He said "they've all gone republican" which just is not true. Definitely not in Georgia at least. There are many many people who still identify as democrats even though they're actually republicans. They're referred to as Dixiecrats.
From the beginning and end of the article:
The Dixiecrats were members of the States' Rights Democratic Party, which splintered from the Democratic Party in 1948. The faction consisted of malcontented southern delegates to the Democratic Party who protested the insertion of a civil rights plank in the party platform...
...Although the Dixiecrats immediately dissolved after the 1948 election, their impact lasted much longer. Many white voters who initially cast Dixiecrat ballots gravitated back toward the Democratic Party only grudgingly, and they remained nominal Democrats at best. Ultimately, the Dixiecrat movement paved the way for the rise of the modern Republican Party in the South. Many former Dixiecrat supporters eventually became Republicans, as was highlighted by Strom Thurmond's conversion in the 1960s.
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/artic...dixiecrats
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