Harriett Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill

[Rev. Rye]

It meant something vastly different then than it does today. If Jackson were alive today, he’d be a Trumpian Republican.

Boru

LOL..


Sure - it "means something" -

Like - Trump was Democrat. What's THAT mean?


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And exactly when? Give me a date when they switched black hats for white...

And - when do they change back?


True believers are amusing to watch..

It means Trump’s blatant bigotry ended up finding some purchase when he switched to being a Republican.

And if you want to know when things changed, well, look up the “Southern Strategy.” It was a process that took years, so I can’t find a date for when it happened, but I think I can find a date by which it became clear shit had changed for good: November 5, 1968.

Short version: the Democratic Party under JFK and LBJ had come to support the Civil Rights Movement, which eventually culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1965. In the previous hundred years since the end of the Civil War, the South, by and large, voted for the Democratic Party, specifically because they wouldn’t let them live Lincoln’s role in the Civil War down. This changed in 1964 when Barry Goldwater won five Southern states (and they were the only states he won except his home state of Arizona.) The difference, he really wasn’t a fan of integration. Not explicitly racist, he just had some concerns about the way things were going in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. And the Nixon campaign distilled it into a science. To quote one of his strategists (interviewed in 1981, redacted in accordance to the forum’s rules):

Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "N——-r, n——r, n——r.” By 1968 you can't say "n——r"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N——r, n——r."

And, the result, all those states that were Democratic strongholds for about a century (at least the ones that didn’t vote for George Wallace, and Texas) all started to go Republican. By 1972, the last holdouts went to the Republicans and they’ve stayed that way, and the ones that have changed have only started to do so recently. And, as a result, by now, the Democrats are the party more open to racial justice, and the Republicans have ossified into the party of, if not open racism, the party of the straight white man, and increasingly little else.