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Originally Posted by Reactionary
OP - you conveniently left out the time that David Duke ran for office as a Democrat. Dishonest...
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ONLY during a 19
75 unsuccessful bid for public office. Its completely irrelevant what his party is! The point is that he had a history with the KKK going all the way back to his LSU student days (late 60s!). So it doesn't matter which party under!!!!
If you want to go
that far back, I'll take you up on it. Duke got kicked out of ROTC at LSU in the
late 60s because he wore a Nazi uniform on campus when going to LSU's Free Speech Alley. He spent about 15 minutes once a week spewing out pseudo-philosophical arguments about racial supremacy. BTW, even by late 60s standards, that still ignited a lot of controversy at LSU.
Moving over a decade ahead, he ran for President in 1988 under the Christian Populist Party banner, and ran as a
Republican in 1989. I only started at 1989 because he didn't actually win a public office until then. For the sake of completeness, he ran for President as a Republican in 1992.
So there you have it. It's YOU who are being disingenuous when you claim Duke ran as a Democrat. The only reason he ran as a Democrat was that at that time, "Southern Democrats" were still a thing. The South's shift to the Republican party was barely getting off the ground. David Treen, first Rep governor since Reconstruction, wouldn't win his office until
1979. In fact, the shift to Republicans wouldn't really be complete until the 90s.
Take it all from a born-and-raised Louisiana native - even if I lived in Texas since 2002!
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