RE: Is Harassment of Public Figures Acceptable: Your Sincere Opinion
August 9, 2018 at 12:23 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2018 at 12:40 pm by Crossless2.0.)
(August 9, 2018 at 11:42 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 9, 2018 at 11:23 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: You know damned well where those Southern conservative Democrats went, and it happened quite a while ago.
Yes, I do. There were exactly three of them. WIKI
"Some southern Democrats became Republicans at the national level, while remaining with their old party in state and local politics throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Of the known Dixiecrats, only three switched parties becoming Republicans: Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Mills E. Godwin, Jr."
And it was Senator Byrd, the former Klansman, who remained in the Democratic party and continued to be praised throughout his career. WIKI again That is NOT ancient history. That is where today's Democratic party puts its allegiance.
Also from the first Wiki page...
"The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a significant event in converting the Deep South to the Republican Party; in that year most Senatorial Republicans supported the Act (most of the opposition came from Southern Democrats), but the Republican Party nominated for the Presidency Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who had opposed it."
VIDEO of the HISTORY of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY
The history is clear. Democrats were the party of racism and the notion that all the Democrats became Republican is simply false.
Also, was D'Sousa wrong? Yes or No.
For Christ's sake, Neo! Did you really think I was talking about members of Congress? I'm talking about the rank and file. Starting in '68, the GOP played a long game of pandering to white Southerners' cultural resentments in the wake of the Civil Rights Act, and it has paid off handsomely. That the Democrats were the party of Southern racism is well known. You're not breaking any news, here.
D'souza is right in the narrowest sense. Yes, slaveholders were Democrats, and Republicans were opposed to slaveholding (or at least its spread). But D'souza isn't making a point about history. He (and many others on the right) have repeatedly used that talking point to revile contemporary Democrats for attitudes the party has scorned for decades. Meanwhile, they never tire of reminding us how the GOP was the party of Lincoln and the party of those Republicans who helped pass the Civil Rights Act, even as they become the party of Trump.
