Debunking the liberals: Dems have always supported racism more than Republicans (extremist, Birmingham)

[urbanlife78]

Originally Posted by aneftp

Same way today's Democratic party tries to tie in the extreme Tea Party with the regular Republican base.

It wasn't hard to do when the Tea Party was leading the regular Republicans by the nose and running every moderate Republican out the door.

[rosie_hair]

Haha, anyone care to explain to the OP why he's showing his extreme ignorance?

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by urbanlife78

So what you are saying is that you don't understand the difference between northern politicians and southern politicians.

Uh, one lives in the north and the other lives in the south?

That is hardly an earthshaking insight.

[Little-Acorn]

Originally Posted by rosie_hair

Haha, anyone care to explain to the OP why he's showing his extreme ignorance?

See? There goes another one!

[pch1013]

Originally Posted by Little-Acorn

Democrats have always supported racism.

So you're calling Hubert Humphrey -- who was instrumental in pushing the Civil Rights Act through the Senate -- a racist?

[Little-Acorn]

Originally Posted by Little-Acorn

A greater percentage of Republicans, in both the House and Senate, voted for the Civil Rights Act, than the percentage of Democrats.

House Democrats: 152–96 (61%-39%)
House Republicans: 138–34 (80%–20%)

Senate Democrats: 46-21 (69%-31%)
Senate Republicans: 27-6 (82%-18%)

Even though Democrats were in the majority in both houses, they would not have been able to pass it at all, unless such large majorities of Republicans also voted to pass. Fortunately the Republicans came through and saved the bill from the defeat Democrats alone would have given it.

Democrats have always supported racism. From their founding of the KKK, to their current majority membership in it, to the majority support of racist legislation in Congress even today.

If I were a Democrat, I'd try to fake as many excuses for not associating racism with Democrats as I could, just as the leftists in this thread do. The truth is just too painful for Democrats... as usual.

The Democrats are fighting for their lives, on this and other subjects.

And every time a conservative points out the truth, as the OP does, all the Dems can do is lie and deflect, lie and deflect.

YOU tell ME why it goes on so long and gets so repetetive.

[pch1013]

Originally Posted by petch751

It was the Democrat Party in the South that instituted Jim Crow Laws.

It was the Democrat Party in the South that instituted "separate but equal".

It was the Democrat Party in the South that supported the Ku Klux Klan.

It was George Wallace and the Democrat Party in the South that said "Segregation Forever".

Orval Faubus and the Democrat Party that wanted the Arkansas National Guard to enforce segregation

We can therefore conclude that all Southerners are racists.

[urbanlife78]

Originally Posted by Harrier

Uh, one lives in the north and the other lives in the south?

That is hardly an earthshaking insight.

Yep Harrier, that is all that means if you completely ignore history.

[d from birmingham]

The Democrats of the past are the Republicans of today.

Tell me who instituted the Southern Strategy? Oh right Republicans.

"From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that...but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats."

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html...s-southern.pdf


"I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come," President Lyndon B Johnson after signing the Voting Rights Act.

"Bob Herbert, a New York Times columnist, reported a 1981 interview with Lee Atwater, published in Southern Politics in the 1990s by Alexander P. Lamis, in which Lee Atwater discussed politics in the South:

Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?

Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, "******, ******, ******." By 1968 you can't say "******" — 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 "******, ******."

Herbert wrote in the same column, "The truth is that there was very little that was subconscious about the G.O.P.'s relentless appeal to racist whites. Tired of losing elections, it saw an opportunity to renew itself by opening its arms wide to white voters who could never forgive the Democratic Party for its support of civil rights and voting rights for blacks.""

[Opin_Yunated]

What a joke.

Partisan loyalty is irrelevant. The ideology is always the teller. Moderates and liberals dominate the north (pro-civil rights), conservatives dominate the south (anti-civil rights). The party did not matter.

Today, the Republicans are the conservatives. This does not mean all Republicans are conservatives. This mean the racist conservatives of the South have been incorporated into the Republican party voter base. They currently vote Republican.