Race and the Modern GOP

MolonLabe2009 · Sep 30, 2014

First of all, the title of their article is this...

Race and the Modern GOP - Let’s not kid ourselves. Today’s deep divides are due to the civil rights movement.
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Fact. More Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act than did Democrats.

And their accompanying photo is this...

Fact. George Wallace (standing in doorway) was a Democrat.

Why does the left constantly lie and distribute propaganda?

Politico's propaganda hit piece

Kranes56 · Sep 30, 2014

Fun fact: Nixon did not support desegregating schools.

MolonLabe2009 · Sep 30, 2014

Kranes56 said: ↑

Fun fact: Nixon did not support desegregating schools.
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And here are some really fun facts: The Democrats' Missing History

Kranes56 · Sep 30, 2014

MolonLabe2009 said: ↑

And here are some really fun facts: The Democrats' Missing History
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I don't have a subscription to the WSJ. But I get what you're saying. Another fun fact is that the article had to deal with modern GOP politics as well, which the Dems certainly don't have as much, if no racist tendencies.

MolonLabe2009 · Sep 30, 2014

Kranes56 said: ↑

I don't have a subscription to the WSJ.
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From WSJ link...

As Democrats prepare to nominate Sen. Barack Obama to be the first black president, the Democratic National Committee and its chairman, Howard Dean, have whitewashed the party's horrific and lengthy record of racism. The omission is in the section of the DNC Web site that describes the party's history. The missing history raises the obvious question of whether the Democrats, unable or simply unwilling to put their party on record as taking direct responsibility for one of the worst racial crimes of the ages, will be able to run a campaign free of the racial animosities it has regularly brought both to American presidential campaigns and American political and social life in general.

What else to make of the official party history as presented by the DNC on its Web site? It is a history so sanitized of historical reality it makes Stalin look like David McCullough.

The DNC Web site section labeled "Party History," linked here, is in fact scrubbed clean of the not-so-little dirty secret that fueled Democrats' political successes for over a century and a half and made American life a hell on earth for black Americans. Literally, the DNC official history, which begins with the creation of the party in 1800, gets to the creation of the DNC itself in 1848 and then--poof!--the next sentence says: "As the 19th Century came to a close, the American electorate changed more and more rapidly." It quickly heads into a riff on poor immigrants coming to America.

In a stroke, 52 years of Democratic history vanishes. Disappeared faster than the truth in the Clinton administration. Why would this be? Allow me to sketch in a few facts from those missing 52 years. For that matter, lets add in the facts from the party history before and after those 52 years, since they aren't mentioned by the Democrats' National Committee either.

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So what's missing?

There is no reference to the number of Democratic Party platforms supporting slavery. There were six from 1840 through 1860.

There is no reference to the number of Democratic presidents who owned slaves. There were seven from 1800 through 1861

There is no reference to the number of Democratic Party platforms that either supported segregation outright or were silent on the subject. There were 20, from 1868 through 1948.

There is no reference to "Jim Crow" as in "Jim Crow laws," nor is there reference to the role Democrats played in creating them. These were the post-Civil War laws passed enthusiastically by Democrats in that pesky 52-year part of the DNC's missing years. These laws segregated public schools, public transportation, restaurants, rest rooms and public places in general (everything from water coolers to beaches). The reason Rosa Parks became famous is that she sat in the "whites only" front section of a bus, the "whites only" designation the direct result of Democrats.

There is no reference to the formation of the Ku Klux Klan, which, according to Columbia University historian Eric Foner, became "a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party." Nor is there reference to University of North Carolina historian Allen Trelease's description of the Klan as the "terrorist arm of the Democratic Party."

There is no reference to the fact Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution. The 13th banned slavery. The 14th effectively overturned the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision (made by Democratic pro-slavery Supreme Court justices) by guaranteeing due process and equal protection to former slaves. The 15th gave black Americans the right to vote.

There is no reference to the fact that Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It was passed by the Republican Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, who had been a Democrat before joining Lincoln's ticket in 1864. The law was designed to provide blacks with the right to own private property, sign contracts, sue and serve as witnesses in a legal proceeding.

There is no reference to the Democrats' opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It was passed by a Republican Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses Grant. The law prohibited racial discrimination in public places and public accommodations.

There is no reference to the Democrats' 1904 platform, which devotes a section to "Sectional and Racial Agitation," claiming the GOP's protests against segregation and the denial of voting rights to blacks sought to "revive the dead and hateful race and sectional animosities in any part of our common country," which in turn "means confusion, distraction of business, and the reopening of wounds now happily healed."

There is no reference to four Democratic platforms, 1908-20, that are silent on blacks, segregation, lynching and voting rights as racial problems in the country mount. By contrast the GOP platforms of those years specifically address "Rights of the Negro" ( 1908 ), oppose lynching ( in 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928 ) and, as the New Deal kicks in, speak out about the dangers of making blacks "wards of the state."

There is no reference to the Democratic Convention of 1924, known to history as the "Klanbake." The 103-ballot convention was held in Madison Square Garden. Hundreds of delegates were members of the Ku Klux Klan, the Klan so powerful that a plank condemning Klan violence was defeated outright. To celebrate, the Klan staged a rally with 10,000 hooded Klansmen in a field in New Jersey directly across the Hudson from the site of the convention. Attended by hundreds of cheering convention delegates, the rally featured burning crosses and calls for violence against African-Americans and Catholics.

There is no reference to the fact that it was Democrats who segregated the federal government, at the direction of President Woodrow Wilson upon taking office in 1913. There \is a reference to the fact that President Harry Truman integrated the military after World War II.

There is reference to the fact that Democrats created the Federal Reserve Board, passed labor and child welfare laws, and created Social Security with Wilson's New Freedom and FDR's New Deal. There is no mention that these programs were created as the result of an agreement to ignore segregation and the lynching of blacks. Neither is there a reference to the thousands of local officials, state legislators, state governors, U.S. congressmen and U.S. senators who were elected as supporters of slavery and then segregation between 1800 and 1965. Nor is there reference to the deal with the devil that left segregation and lynching as a way of life in return for election support for three post-Civil War Democratic presidents, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.

There is no reference that three-fourths of the opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Bill in the U.S. House came from Democrats, or that 80% of the "nay" vote in the Senate came from Democrats. Certainly there is no reference to the fact that the opposition included future Democratic Senate leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia (a former Klan member) and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Sr., father of Vice President Al Gore.

Last but certainly not least, there is no reference to the fact that Birmingham, Ala., Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor, who infamously unleashed dogs and fire hoses on civil rights protestors, was in fact--yes indeed--a member of both the Democratic National Committee and the Ku Klux Klan.

Reading the DNC's official "Party History" of the Democrats and the race issue and civil rights is not unlike reading "In Through the Looking Glass": " 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less.' "

Here's this line from the DNC: "With the election of Harry Truman, Democrats began the fight to bring down the final barriers of race . . ." Truman, of course, was elected in 1948, and to his great credit he did in fact, along with then-Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey, begin to push the Democrats towards a pro-civil-rights stance. This culminated in the passage of the 1960s civil rights laws--legislation that redid what had been done by Republicans a hundred years earlier but undone by the Democrats' support for segregation. But the notion that "Democrats began to bring down the final barriers of race" raises the obvious questions. What were these barriers doing there in the first place? And who exactly was responsible for creating them?
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Kranes56 · Sep 30, 2014

MolonLabe2009 said: ↑

As Democrats prepare to nominate Sen. Barack Obama to be the first black president, the Democratic National Committee and its chairman, Howard Dean, have whitewashed the party's horrific and lengthy record of racism. The omission is in the section of the DNC Web site that describes the party's history. The missing history raises the obvious question of whether the Democrats, unable or simply unwilling to put their party on record as taking direct responsibility for one of the worst racial crimes of the ages, will be able to run a campaign free of the racial animosities it has regularly brought both to American presidential campaigns and American political and social life in general.

What else to make of the official party history as presented by the DNC on its Web site? It is a history so sanitized of historical reality it makes Stalin look like David McCullough.

The DNC Web site section labeled "Party History," linked here, is in fact scrubbed clean of the not-so-little dirty secret that fueled Democrats' political successes for over a century and a half and made American life a hell on earth for black Americans. Literally, the DNC official history, which begins with the creation of the party in 1800, gets to the creation of the DNC itself in 1848 and then--poof!--the next sentence says: "As the 19th Century came to a close, the American electorate changed more and more rapidly." It quickly heads into a riff on poor immigrants coming to America.

In a stroke, 52 years of Democratic history vanishes. Disappeared faster than the truth in the Clinton administration. Why would this be? Allow me to sketch in a few facts from those missing 52 years. For that matter, lets add in the facts from the party history before and after those 52 years, since they aren't mentioned by the Democrats' National Committee either.

* * *

So what's missing?

There is no reference to the number of Democratic Party platforms supporting slavery. There were six from 1840 through 1860.
There is no reference to the number of Democratic presidents who owned slaves. There were seven from 1800 through 1861
There is no reference to the number of Democratic Party platforms that either supported segregation outright or were silent on the subject. There were 20, from 1868 through 1948.
There is no reference to "Jim Crow" as in "Jim Crow laws," nor is there reference to the role Democrats played in creating them. These were the post-Civil War laws passed enthusiastically by Democrats in that pesky 52-year part of the DNC's missing years. These laws segregated public schools, public transportation, restaurants, rest rooms and public places in general (everything from water coolers to beaches). The reason Rosa Parks became famous is that she sat in the "whites only" front section of a bus, the "whites only" designation the direct result of Democrats.
There is no reference to the formation of the Ku Klux Klan, which, according to Columbia University historian Eric Foner, became "a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party." Nor is there reference to University of North Carolina historian Allen Trelease's description of the Klan as the "terrorist arm of the Democratic Party."
There is no reference to the fact Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution. The 13th banned slavery. The 14th effectively overturned the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision (made by Democratic pro-slavery Supreme Court justices) by guaranteeing due process and equal protection to former slaves. The 15th gave black Americans the right to vote.
There is no reference to the fact that Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It was passed by the Republican Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, who had been a Democrat before joining Lincoln's ticket in 1864. The law was designed to provide blacks with the right to own private property, sign contracts, sue and serve as witnesses in a legal proceeding.
There is no reference to the Democrats' opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It was passed by a Republican Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses Grant. The law prohibited racial discrimination in public places and public accommodations.
There is no reference to the Democrats' 1904 platform, which devotes a section to "Sectional and Racial Agitation," claiming the GOP's protests against segregation and the denial of voting rights to blacks sought to "revive the dead and hateful race and sectional animosities in any part of our common country," which in turn "means confusion, distraction of business, and the reopening of wounds now happily healed."
There is no reference to four Democratic platforms, 1908-20, that are silent on blacks, segregation, lynching and voting rights as racial problems in the country mount. By contrast the GOP platforms of those years specifically address "Rights of the Negro" (190, oppose lynching (in 1912, 1920, 1924, 192 and, as the New Deal kicks in, speak out about the dangers of making blacks "wards of the state."
There is no reference to the Democratic Convention of 1924, known to history as the "Klanbake." The 103-ballot convention was held in Madison Square Garden. Hundreds of delegates were members of the Ku Klux Klan, the Klan so powerful that a plank condemning Klan violence was defeated outright. To celebrate, the Klan staged a rally with 10,000 hooded Klansmen in a field in New Jersey directly across the Hudson from the site of the convention. Attended by hundreds of cheering convention delegates, the rally featured burning crosses and calls for violence against African-Americans and Catholics.
There is no reference to the fact that it was Democrats who segregated the federal government, at the direction of President Woodrow Wilson upon taking office in 1913. There \is a reference to the fact that President Harry Truman integrated the military after World War II.
There is reference to the fact that Democrats created the Federal Reserve Board, passed labor and child welfare laws, and created Social Security with Wilson's New Freedom and FDR's New Deal. There is no mention that these programs were created as the result of an agreement to ignore segregation and the lynching of blacks. Neither is there a reference to the thousands of local officials, state legislators, state governors, U.S. congressmen and U.S. senators who were elected as supporters of slavery and then segregation between 1800 and 1965. Nor is there reference to the deal with the devil that left segregation and lynching as a way of life in return for election support for three post-Civil War Democratic presidents, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.
There is no reference that three-fourths of the opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Bill in the U.S. House came from Democrats, or that 80% of the "nay" vote in the Senate came from Democrats. Certainly there is no reference to the fact that the opposition included future Democratic Senate leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia (a former Klan member) and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Sr., father of Vice President Al Gore.
Last but certainly not least, there is no reference to the fact that Birmingham, Ala., Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor, who infamously unleashed dogs and fire hoses on civil rights protestors, was in fact--yes indeed--a member of both the Democratic National Committee and the Ku Klux Klan.

Reading the DNC's official "Party History" of the Democrats and the race issue and civil rights is not unlike reading "In Through the Looking Glass": " 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less.' "

Here's this line from the DNC: "With the election of Harry Truman, Democrats began the fight to bring down the final barriers of race . . ." Truman, of course, was elected in 1948, and to his great credit he did in fact, along with then-Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey, begin to push the Democrats towards a pro-civil-rights stance. This culminated in the passage of the 1960s civil rights laws--legislation that redid what had been done by Republicans a hundred years earlier but undone by the Democrats' support for segregation. But the notion that "Democrats began to bring down the final barriers of race" raises the obvious questions. What were these barriers doing there in the first place? And who exactly was responsible for creating them?
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Thank you. Wasn't too bad of an article, a little bit more touching up on the history part but still. That being said, no is arguing the Democrats have a racist past. That also being said no one is arguing that the GOP also had a racist past as well. What the article looks at is how the GOP became the party of racists, and it does it in such a way that makes logical sense.

MolonLabe2009 · Sep 30, 2014

Kranes56 said: ↑

What the article looks at is how the GOP became the party of racists.
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The GOP hasn't become the "party of racists."

That's just more left-wing crap.

MVictorP · Sep 30, 2014

MolonLabe2009 said: ↑

First of all, the title of their article is this...

Fact. More Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act than did Democrats.

And their accompanying photo is this...

Fact. George Wallace (standing in doorway) was a Democrat.

Why does the left constantly lie and distribute propaganda?

Politico's propaganda hit piece
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The further we go back in time, the more the GOP made sense. How did they come to that sorry nest of idiots, racists and clowns is beyond my comprehension - althought Fox wouldn't be that far.

Gorn Captain · Sep 30, 2014

The states that voted for George Wallace in 1968....the anti-integration states?

ALL voted for Richard Nixon in 1972.

Why??? If Republicans are so "good" on civil rights???

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MolonLabe2009 said: ↑

The GOP hasn't become the "party of racists."

That's just more left-wing crap.
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Explain why most blacks don't vote Republican.....WITHOUT making an insulting remark about blacks.

Go!

Kranes56 · Sep 30, 2014

MolonLabe2009 said: ↑

The GOP hasn't become the "party of racists."

That's just more left-wing crap.
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Then why not debunk what the article says?

cpicturetaker · Sep 30, 2014

MolonLabe2009 said: ↑

First of all, the title of their article is this...

Fact. More Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act than did Democrats.

And their accompanying photo is this...
IMG]http://images.politico.com/global/2014/09/22/140922_mcadamkloos_wallace_wikimedia.jpg[/IMG]

Fact. George Wallace (standing in doorway) was a Democrat.

Why does the left constantly lie and distribute propaganda?

Politico's propaganda hit piece
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WE DON'T HAVE TO! That was in NO WAY the gist of the article. I posted the article yesterday with the HIGHLIGHTED #'s of how many DEMs and how many REPS. The article was DEAD ON. The CIVIL RIGHTS movement made SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS switch! BARRY GOLDWATER started the Southern Strategy and it was used by Nixon and Reagan and EVEN GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH. I was NOT A HIT PIECE other than to state the facts. CIVIL RIGHTS created the 'modern' Republican Party. I lived among the SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS then and I watched what happened.

Anyone WANNA SCHOOL the above poster on GEORGE WALLACES 'PARTY' affiliation after the picture from above??

Do posters on this board ever google anything before you they go on their VAPID tirades??

ADDENDUM: I didn't know GHW BUSH also used the 'southern strategy'! They all must be so proud...

From Wikipeia... In Wallace's 1998 obituary, The Huntsville Times political editor John Anderson summarized the impact from the 1968 campaign: "His startling appeal to millions of alienated white voters was not lost on Richard Nixon and other GOP strategists. First Nixon, then Ronald Reagan, and finally George Herbert Walker Bush successfully adopted toned-down versions of Wallace's anti-busing, anti-federal government platform to pry low- and middle-income whites from the Democratic New Deal coalition."[1

Grizz · Sep 30, 2014

Good Lord! Have any of you who believe this silliness bothered to read a newspaper in the last ten years? twenty? forty?

alsos · Sep 30, 2014

Gorn Captain said: ↑

Explain why most blacks don't vote Republican.....WITHOUT making an insulting remark about blacks.

Go!
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I think thats a question black people need to answer. What is it about the democrat party that attracts them? Why did they vote for Obama by a margin of 98%? Did they vote for him in such marge percentages AND UMBERS because hes a democrat or because hes black AND a democrat? Explain why every black republican is cast as an Uncle Tom, a sellout, or not black enough by the black community?

And for the record blacks do vote republican. This is growing in number as more blacks are beginning to realize how they have been used by liberal democrats and keep them hooked on social programs; the worst form of racism in this country.

Radio Refugee · Sep 30, 2014

MolonLabe2009 said: ↑

Fact. George Wallace (standing in doorway) was a Democrat.

Why does the left constantly lie and distribute propaganda?
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First freeeekin thing I noticed about that article yesterday.

Headline:"Politico's article lies about race and the GOP "

Rewrite:"PoliBico lies"

Their agenda is transparent.

MolonLabe2009 · Sep 30, 2014

Gorn Captain said: ↑

Explain why most blacks don't vote Republican.
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They've been victimized by the Democrat party. They don't know any better and they want free stuff.

Trinnity · Sep 30, 2014

Kranes56 said: ↑

the article had to deal with modern GOP politics as well, which the Dems certainly don't have as much, if no racist tendencies.
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That is a L I E.

The Democratic Party keeps all the (*)(*)(*)(*) stirred up practicing racism and promoting racism. They even fund-raise off it. Obama and Holder are patently racist.

Hoosier8 · Sep 30, 2014

Gorn Captain said: ↑

The states that voted for George Wallace in 1968....the anti-integration states?

ALL voted for Richard Nixon in 1972.

Why??? If Republicans are so "good" on civil rights???

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Explain why most blacks don't vote Republican.....WITHOUT making an insulting remark about blacks.

Go!
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It started with the first Progressive President Teddy Roosevelt.

Kranes56 · Sep 30, 2014

Trinnity said: ↑

That is a L I E.

The Democratic Party keeps all the (*)(*)(*)(*) stirred up practicing racism and promoting racism. They even fund-raise off it. Obama and Holder are patently racist.
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Hey Trininity, long time no see.

That being said, why don't you go ahead and prove your point?

Hoosier8 · Sep 30, 2014

Kranes56 said: ↑

I don't have a subscription to the WSJ. But I get what you're saying. Another fun fact is that the article had to deal with modern GOP politics as well, which the Dems certainly don't have as much, if no racist tendencies.
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Would that be why they obsess on race and produce race based legislation?

Papastox · Sep 30, 2014

Kranes56 said: ↑

Fun fact: Nixon did not support desegregating schools.
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Neither did most Democrats...

Kranes56 · Sep 30, 2014

Hoosier8 said: ↑

Would that be why they obsess on race and produce race based legislation?
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You mean like support for the War on Drugs?

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Papastox said: ↑

Neither did most Democrats...
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By Nixon, it wasn't really the Democrats.

Hoosier8 · Sep 30, 2014

Kranes56 said: ↑

You mean like support for the War on Drugs?

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By Nixon, it wasn't really the Democrats.
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Haven't seen a Democrat try to legislate away the 'War on Drugs' yet.

When Nixon became President, Blacks were already voting 95% Democrat.

cpicturetaker · Sep 30, 2014

Grizz said: ↑

Good Lord! Have any of you who believe this silliness bothered to read a newspaper in the last ten years? twenty? forty?
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I admit. I was naive. I didn't know about the 'southern strategy' until the mid-to-late 80's. Not exactly like they were going to BRAG ABOUT IT! It was in conjunction with finding out about the POS LEE ATWATER! He sucked at the political teets of Nixonites. I'm sure he learned well.

Attwater died of a HORRIFIC form of brain cancer at the age of only about 42 and only about 2 years after he got Bush 1 elected. I'd like to say it was KARMA but Rove is still breathing and they 'strategized' together.

(When Attwater was dying, he called up MICHAEL DUKAKIS to personally apologize for the WILLIE HORTON ads! Yep, he learned how to use racism well!)

Windigo · Sep 30, 2014

Gorn Captain said: ↑

The states that voted for George Wallace in 1968....the anti-integration states?

ALL voted for Richard Nixon in 1972.

Why???
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Because except for Massachusetts the 72 election was a sweep.

All those states voted for Carter in 76.

Dollface · Sep 30, 2014

MolonLabe2009 said: ↑

First of all, the title of their article is this...

Fact. More Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act than did Democrats.

And their accompanying photo is this...

Fact. George Wallace (standing in doorway) was a Democrat.

Why does the left constantly lie and distribute propaganda?

Politico's propaganda hit piece
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I think it is sad that Republicans have to go back 60 years to blame racism on Dems.

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