Race and the Modern GOP

Wow, you found a loser republican like Goldwater who voted against the civil rights act, there were plenty of those from the democrats as well, so try and contain yourself. Also, it would stand to reason that the south was racists, especially since that is where most of the slaves were, but it was cherish promoted by the democrats, you know like George Wallace

Here is more examples of how you liberals like to spread lies:

It was you democrats that started the KKK, so why would you think MLK would be anything but a republican? Condi Rice's family became republicans because in Alabama the democrats wouldn't let them vote. The democrats have a horrible history of racism, and there is no denying that

More for you taste buds bud:

However, he said he wouldn't call King a Democrat, either, because he had "very positive feelings" about Republican Richard Nixon in the late 1950s and "extremely positive feelings" about Republican Nelson Rockefeller, the New York governor who later served as vice president. Also, Garrow said, King became "a very harsh critic" of Democratic President Lyndon Johnson over his escalation of the Vietnam War and "wouldn't necessarily have backed (Democratic presidential nominee) Hubert Humphrey in '68 had he (King) lived."

 

Saying more Republicans voted for it is a lie......so trying to parse just proves my point.....so stop (*)(*)(*)(*)ing lying about it.

 

well if it is on you tube its gotta be true hahah pick your sources better

 

More nonsense.....southern democrats who became the modern republican party. If Condi Rice is a modern Republican because of Southern Democrats in the 60s then she is stupid.

 

While the republicans mostly did vote for Civil Rights, the conservative wing of the party, led by Barry Goldwater opposed voted against it. It was primarily the Northern Republicans and the Northern Democrats who voted for the legislation. The Southern Dems for the most part voted against it. With the passage of the Civil Rights laws, the Dixiecrat wing of the Democratic party, pretty much defected pretty much permanently from the rest of the party. It was Goldwater in 1964 who carried the Deep south, which at the time had no republican legislators and had been up to that time solidly Democratic. After that, in 1968 the deep south went for Wallace, and in 1972 Nixon went with the Southern Strategy with its thinly veiled racist ads. From that time on (except for the election of 1976 when Carter, then the Gov of Georgia, won the south. Not since then has a Dem won the majority of the south. Clinton won a couple of states in 1992 and again in 96. That did not happen again until 2008 when Obama picked off 3 southern states, and 2 in 2012.

LBJ was pretty much correct when he said in 1964 that because of the passage of the Civil Rights act, the Dems had lost the South for at least a generation.

The Politico piece is dead on. The Racists in the south moved to the Republican party. That is fact. All you have to know is that as the South moved to the Republican party, the northeast moved from a solid republican lock to the Dems. The Rockefeller Republicans could not stomach the racism of the new dominant wing of the Republican party.

 

Oh my yes, I'm sure Jews and Asians vote overwhelmingly for Democrats nationally because the principled GOP won't give them 'free stuff'. HAR! Keep peddlin' that line about minorities all being too stoopid and wanting 'free stuff'. That certainly worked for President Romney. You fellas keep screaming like King Canute as history's tide sweeps your bitter, angry and reactionary butts out to irrelevance. The sooner mortality corrects the GOP's problem the sooner Planet Earth based Republicans can correct the mess.

 

We are talking percent.

So, my statement still holds true. As a percent of each party, more Republicans voted for it than did Democrats.

 

As a percent for each party....

Clearly, as a percent for each party, more Republicans voted for it than did Democrats.

 

So, tell me exactly why blacks vote Democrat, and not Republican? And don't say because they are not racist.

I want to know policy wise why they vote Democrat all the time.

 

Yes, Eisenhower was the last decent Republican to be President. They have had 3 great presidents, Lincoln, T. Roosevelt and Eisenhower. All of the rest should be consigned to the dustbin of history.

 

I dont like sticking up for ghe GOP but it is not a racist party if one truly looks at what party is racist the only conclusion must be the Ds. The Rs or conservative wing of it are not at all racist they look at all peopel as equal under the Constitution. Its the Ds or liberals that see indeviduials not as such but too what race, religion or other ethnic group they view them within. Demacrats where and still are the racist party just today they use their racism/bigotry to keep or gain political power but still try to keep down minorities so they can gain from their situation.

 

Trying to parse what? The majority of republicans voted for the CRA over the democrats, especially since the democrats were in control. Just admit it, democrats were more racist than republicans, and the vast majority of those republicans were from the south

 

Really? Do you have evidence that the south become racists because of republicans? Now that is nonsense, here read about the history of who the true racist are. I frankly can't believe we are not united on this issue, except for the fact the you liberals have been brain washed into believing and regurgitating the liberal meme, "republicans are racists". It is pathetic what liberals spew

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Democrats

 

Because they turned out to support the first black major party candidate for President. In 2004, 12% of blacks voted for not the DNC (http://blackdemographics.com/culture/black-politics/) and 37% of blacks eligible to vote don't (http://www.voterparticipation.org/the-rising-american-electorate/) so roughly, "most blacks" don't really support the DNC either. It is about an even divide that was trending toward the GOP before Obama.

 

*snicker* you just didn't ask that asinine question, did you?

Gee, I have no fricking idea why blacks would not want to vote for the party that houses members like the ones above, by their posting history all conservative (maybe some libertarianism mixed in...)....it just boggles my mind....

Thanks for the chuckle.

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You should check out post #65, it'll blow your mind....

 

Yes, truly a mystery that, after reading some iof the above posts, black folks would vote for the non-GOP people. Ranks up there with the Shroud of Turin, black holes and Toby Keith's attraction.

 

Ah yes, the lost Asian vote. The chickens will be coming home to roost in the coming years, and the reality of how screwed up the democrats have made things by keeping Americans on the public dole will be reason enough for Asians to come back to the part of self reliance. Americans smart enough to realize what the government has done by giving away free stuff, it does nothing but destroy the fabric of our society. Also, don't forget that the majority of the Asians live in California, where liberal democrats rule the roost, and have the bulk of their citizens living off the government teat

 

You didn't answer the question, why do blacks vote democrat, please tell us?

 

Clinton got 83% of the black vote in '92 and 84% of the black vote in '96. He also got 72% of the Latino vote

Nope. Sorry but the number isn't growing. It's decreasing.



You really shouldn't make up facts. People will check them here.

The right-wing never fails to trot this old and faithful talking point out whenever someone mentions just how much minorities dislike the Republican Party. Those who parrot it usually just completely ignore facts that show that the Democratic Party offers a much much larger opportunity for minorities to represent the party at all levels of government. If you check the demographics of the House and Senate, you'll likely find that 80-90% of the minorities there are members of the Democratic Party.

The right-wing's minority outreach? A laughing joke. Blame the minorities, act like their too stupid to decide for themselves, and pretend it's everyone else and not the constant outpouring of contempt from the right-wing.

 

Once again... the right-wing seems to be living in a fantasy land where no matter how hard they work to actively (*)(*)(*)(*) off every group but white Christian males, these same groups that they hold in contempt will come a runnin' towards the right.

The reality? Not so much...



So why would Asians, who overwhelmingly lean moderate to left, all of a sudden jump ship to the party that has spent the last 30 years solidifying itself into the deepest recesses of the far-right dogma?

Why would Asians, who have the lowest self-id rate concerning religion, run to join a party that wraps itself in a shroud of religious fanaticism?

 

Lol... where do you get your information? Did you just make it up? As you mentioned, the Democrats were in control. Congress... the White House. Now how would monumental legislation like this get passed without the support of the majority? Any guesses.

Because if you control for region, former "Union" state political representatives voted overwhelmingly in support of the CRA while former "Confederacy" state political representatives voted overwhelmingly against it.



More Democrats, regardless of region, voted for the the CRA than Republicans.

If you understand the portent of this, then you can understand why the Dixiecrats absconded en mass to join the Republican Party and a likely reason why the modern Republican Party developed the Southern Strategy which they are still running as part of their election agenda.

 

The PoFo patriots keep repeating "In the future Asians/Jews/blacks/Hispanics will come to realize that we are right about them being friggin' stupid and will flee the Democrats for our tolerant embrace". Just a real disconnect from reality and an almost sociopathic inability to understand ones fellow human beings. (They are stupid! They want "free things"!) Just bizarre. Great for the Democrats but bizarre nonetheless.

 

You may be right about the religious zealots that drive people in another political direction. I grew up in California, my wife is Japanese, and most all of my friends are Japanese, and Chinese, and every single on of them are strong conservatives, but that only makes up a small percentage of the population. I personally hate all religions, they are the reason this planet is so unbelievably (*)(*)(*)(*)ed up

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You didn't read my first post:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/politics/civil-rights-act-interesting-facts/

 

The only thing you have to do in order to vote in this country is register a pulse! Today, you can be a parasite on government welfare, demonstrate no supportable viewpoint on anything, have no education, have no means of supporting yourself, and exhibit no proficiency other than the ability to convert food to **** and, Voilà -- you're deemed as worthy to vote as someone who works, pays taxes, and has an understanding of, and loyalty to, the Constitution of the United States.

This is no longer the country that I grew up in, and in another 10 -15 years, the United States will be just another "turd" floating around in a large toilet full of other POS, dumbed-down, has-been countries....

 

Cowardly copout. That video was aired on TV during thd election.

Notice the racial stereotypes like the gold tooth. Your side are a bunch of scumbags when a black man or woman leaves your plantation.