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So GOP leaders and Democrat leaders, and their voters, got together and mutually agreed to switch?
Why don't I hear GOP politicians pushing for segregation if there was a big switch? Why did mostly white Republican voters elect a black man , Tim Scott , for senator in SC?
Why would the GOP decide to adopt a racist platform after popular support for segregation dwindled so much the Democratic party gave it up? That makes no sense.
Dude, people are married to ideology, not political party. If Democrats came out tomorrow against LGBT rights, immigration reform, and abortion, and on the flip side Republicans came out for gun reform, abortion, and LGBT rights, there would be a massive flop from one party to the other. Thats exactly what happened with the Southern strategy. LBJ was a Southern Democrat. He introduced the voting rights act which was WILDLY unpopular in the South. As such Nixon and the Republican party decided this decisive issue was a way to get the Southern vote back so they started catering to them on social issues. The Democratic party on the other hand started making their platform to cater more to progressives to capture fleeing Republicans.
Your problem is that youre trying to make the parties seem as though they have always been the same. Lets make one thing clear: political parties are businesses for the most part. They are trying to gather as many members as they can. Thats it and thats all. The Republicans saw an opportunity in the South and they took it. Democrats reacted by becoming the party of progressives.
Dude, people are married to ideology, not political party. If Democrats came out tomorrow against LGBT rights, immigration reform, and abortion, and on the flip side Republicans came out for gun reform, abortion, and LGBT rights, there would be a massive flop from one party to the other. Thats exactly what happened with the Southern strategy. LBJ was a Southern Democrat. He introduced the voting rights act which was WILDLY unpopular in the South. As such Nixon and the Republican party decided this decisive issue was a way to get the Southern vote back so they started catering to them on social issues. The Democratic party on the other hand started making their platform to cater more to progressives to capture fleeing Republicans.
Your problem is that youre trying to make the parties seem as though they have always been the same. Lets make one thing clear: political parties are businesses for the most part. They are trying to gather as many members as they can. Thats it and thats all. The Republicans saw an opportunity in the South and they took it. Democrats reacted by becoming the party of progressives.
Nixon was for Civil Rights. It was Republicans who pushed the civil rights legislation in Congress and Democratic politicians, Robert Byrd and Al Gore's father filibustered it. LBJ was a huge racist and had previously opposed civil rights.
Only one of the racist Democrats switched to the GOP. Robert Byrd, who was in the KKK at one point, did not switch. A very liberal politician.
You don't research the facts.
You have not provided any evidence that GOP was liberal prior to the 1960s.
Nixon was for Civil Rights. It was Republicans who pushed the civil rights legislation in Congress and Democratic politicians, Robert Byrd and Al Gore's father filibustered it. LBJ was a huge racist and had previously opposed civil rights.
You don't research the facts.
You have not provided any evidence that GOP was liberal prior to the 1960s.
Freeing the slaves and ending segregation were certainly not conservative causes...
Freeing the slaves and ending segregation were certainly not conservative causes...
That's your partisan assertion, not a fact. Lincoln was a Republican. I've read his speeches and I do not think he would be a Democrat today.
Anyway, moving on.
It is funny how I never get any response when I point out mostly white Republicans in SC elected one of 3 black senators, and an Indian female governor twice. It is not a convenient data point for your narrative so you don't address it.
The only black person on the Supreme Court is the very conservative Clarence Thomas who was smeared in his confirmation hearings by the same party who nominated Al Gore, the son of a segregationist senator who filibustered the Civil Rights Act.
That's your partisan assertion, not a fact. Lincoln was a Republican.
Again, Republicans were not conservative on social issues at that time. What makes your argument ridiculous is that youre assuming the political parties always had the same views on social issues and thats easy to disprove.
Do you know what the words "conservative" and "liberal" even mean??? Look them up and tell me how something radical like de-segregation and ending slavery remotely match with the definition of the word conservative.
I'd say Florida as well. Some people considered Florida the "New Jersey of the South", which I think is true. Florida has a lot of retirees from the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic such as states in the Tri-State Area (NJ, NY, and CT). Florida has a lot of transplants in general. Florida will lose the Southern culture and also everyone will no longer have Southern accents. Florida's beach culture and amusement park culture make it seem more like a state like California. Florida is the East Coast version of California in my opinion and the only difference between FL and CA is that Florida is a jungle, humid, and has hurricanes. CA is an expensive desert with no humidity and no hurricanes.
Again, Republicans were not conservative on social issues at that time. What makes your argument ridiculous is that youre assuming the political parties always had the same views on social issues and thats easy to disprove.
Do you know what the words "conservative" and "liberal" even mean??? Look them up and tell me how something radical like de-segregation and ending slavery remotely match with the definition of the word conservative.
You have not provided any evidence that GOP was pro-choice on abortion, pro gun control, etc.
Associating racism with conservatism is the partisan liberal Democrat definition of conservatism. FDR dominated in the south back in the day prior to civil rights for black people. I think most people consider FDR the father of modern liberalism in this country. If you poll Democrats on greatest presidents, FDR is typically in the top 3 and that isn't the case for GOP voters. Lincoln is typically in top 3 for GOP voters.
The south went from voting for FDR to voting for politicians like Reagan. Reagan politics are not similar to FDR politics.
Says a guy who lives in Denver but claims to live in Clemson. I've noticed that the people who assert there was a big switch are all partisan Democrats like you.
You can't articulate why white racists would elect Tim Scott, a black man, in SC.
You have not provided any evidence that GOP was pro-choice on abortion, pro gun control, etc.
What part of "social issues have changed from generation to generation" is difficult to understand?
I cant show you that the GOP was pro gun control because when the GOP was more progressive, that wasnt much of an issue. I can show you that civil rights and women's suffrage (which were progressive issues, not a conservative ones) were supported by Republicans.
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