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It's time to put this gross lie to bed once and for all. Democrats were the original party of slavery, Jim Crow laws, and segregation. Yet progressives today would like us to believe that with the stroke of a pen, Lyndon Johnson changed all of that in the 1960s when he signed the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965). Supposedly, the myth goes, racist Southern Democrats became so enraged that they migrated to the Republican Party and have voted that way ever since.
It is important to debunk this Southern Strategy myth, because it provides cover for Democrats who would have you believe that the GOP is the racist party. This could not be further from the truth. The Republicans were founded strictly on an anti-slavery platform. They were instrumental in passing the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments after the Civil War to guarantee black equality. Then, when racist southern Democrats created the KKK and Jim Crow, Republicans worked overtime to fight against Jim Crow laws after the Civil War. Nearly 100 years later, it was once again Republicans in the House and Senate who were essential in passing the civil rights bills.
It gives one pause to think that after 120 years of Republicans strongly fighting for black equality and individual empowerment, racist southern Democrats immediately joined them in the late 1960s in response to the civil rights bills. After all, Republicans overwhelmingly had voted for Johnson's civil rights bills in '64 and '65. The Democrats today trot out this myth constantly, I believe, to provide cover for their racist past and to deflect criticism of how little they have done for minorities since the 60s. The criticism that urban inner cities are now Democratic plantations is a valid one, IMO.
Although the best takedown of the Southern Strategy myth that I've seen is Dinesh D'Souza's "Stealing America," here are some great links for further reading on this subject.
Sorry, but that's a load of bull**** and is an attempt to revise history. Too late. Lee Atwater's famous remarks are well documented and what he said is on audio tape. What Nixon and Atwater did was simple: they knew how to appeal to white southerners by promising to "keep the n****r down" without directly saying the N-word. Atwater invented the modern day "dog whistle" and the Southern Strategy lives on today -- Trump is using it to its fullest.
Well the good news that with the grassroots efforts of many of our black US citizens, blacks and others are being educated about the poison that the Democratic is for them. Obama was the "icing on the cake" and Hillary continues to "step in it". So, expect to see radical changes in the GOP now that the word is out.
I moved to Texas as young child, after the war. There were liberal democrats and conservative Democrats. The only difference between the 2 groups was that the liberal Democrats thought minorities should have the right to vote.
Nobody denies southern democrats invented segregation. But, being able to see another possibility changed attitudes. So did witnessing lynchings.
I moved to Texas as young child, after the war. There were liberal democrats and conservative Democrats. The only difference between the 2 groups was that the liberal Democrats thought minorities should have the right to vote.
Nobody denies southern democrats invented segregation. But, being able to see another possibility changed attitudes. So did witnessing lynchings.
With Jim Crow laws, the south was ruled by the democrats that imposed them.
Tell me Woodrow Wilson was not racist!!
Once Jim Crow laws were dropped, and LBJ was worried about the blacks getting all uppity. They tried the `ol give them enough to shut them up, but not enough to matter deal, because they knew Republicans would take over the south, without Jim Crow Laws. And they did.
Yea, I didn't know Lyndon Johnson was a Republican, wow. He sure did love that N word. Democrats are so sad and pathetic, don't even recognize their own history...or do they?
I wonder is it racist to tell someone "listen, you can do anything anyone else can do because your no different then anyone else"
Or...
Is it racist to say "hey, your too stupid and come from a horrible background, I'm going to give you every advantage possible so you just 'might' catch up to the rest of us"
Republicans were using the Southern Strategy as late as 1988. Courtesy of Lee Atwater.
Sorry, but I will never forget.
So you forgot about Robert Byrd?
Nathan Bedford Forrest?(this one goes way back, I don't want you to hurt yourself...Google is your friend)
William Fulbright?
Shall we continue?
Good to know you never forget, thanks for letting us know...
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