Did the two parties in the USA change, or did people change?

[motownewave]

Originally Posted by TheWiseWino

Lot of assumptions, supposition and not a lot of fact. Mitch, and Mary Landrieu are Democrats because they were raised in the progressive home of Verna and Moon Landrieu a Jesuit educated white attorney and politician who was in the for front of Civil Rights in Louisiana long before it was fashionable or a guarantee of political success. That tradition has been carried on by his two most prominent children. It isn't expediency it is the family's legacy.

Interesting. But that raises a whole new question: the majority of Cajuns (who all are white and there's no debate about that) are historically Catholic, so are the many KKK members in Louisiana all non-Cajuns, because the KKK is anti-Catholic? I know Cajuns are in Acadiana, not the New Orleans area, but I bring this up because Landrieu also is of French Catholic heritage. In Maine, a Ku Klux Klan chapter "defends" the historically British Protestant majority against the Catholic immigrants from Quebec and their influence.

[TheWiseWino]

Originally Posted by motownewave

Interesting. But that raises a whole new question: the majority of Cajuns (who all are white and there's no debate about that) are historically Catholic, so are the many KKK members in Louisiana all non-Cajuns, because the KKK is anti-Catholic? I know Cajuns are in Acadiana, not the New Orleans area, but I bring this up because Landrieu also is of French Catholic heritage. In Maine, a Ku Klux Klan chapter "defends" the historically British Protestant majority against the Catholic immigrants from Quebec and their influence.

You've raised an interesting point. It wasn't until 1974 when David Duke founded the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan that Catholics could become a Klansmen.