Democrats talking about slavery in their debate like it’s 1919

[Roboteer]

Originally Posted by PedroMartinez

Well, the Democrats were the party of slavery and Jim Crow.

Originally Posted by trobesmom

The parties switched platforms years ago. Lots of information on Google.

This falsehood keeps cropping up every now and then in leftist conversations, mostly because they can't justify their chronic racism and differential treatment of blacks, Hispanics etc. that continues to this day.

Which party constantly pushes and passes legislation based on the idea that blacks cannot make it on their own in modern society? And that they must have massive assistance, handouts, and favoritism from government? While that party never tries even a little to pass such legislation for whites?

Sure enough, the Democrats spearhead such racist legislation. Sometimes with help from the liberals in the Republican party, who help them pretend the legislation is "bipartisan".

Democrats (more accurately, liberals) have changed very little since the days of slavery.

[PedroMartinez]

Originally Posted by craigiri

So where did the current Republicans in the South come from? Surely you know they all have ancestors who were Confederates? Now you are making zero sense.......because I know some of these people.

In general, no one moved anywhere except that many former slaves had to leave to the Northern Cities for work....many of the same family names are still in politics and business down there...they got to keep a lot of land and the "40 acres and a mule" were pretty much stolen from the black folks (or never given).

Maybe your politics are dictated by how your family has traditionally voted, but that's more and more rare outside first and second generation Americans.

The GOP voters under 50 in those southern states were either not born or were in grade school when Democrats were losing Jim Crow.

Sorry, but the party swap is only a myth.