Phil here is allowed to be a good liberal bigot, I see. Reverse racism they call that, every bit as ugly as the original and promoted by the same idiots who don’t know the KKK was founded by Democrats, that Planned Parenthood was founded by a Democrat to keep “the number of colored races down”, that the first slaveowner was a black man and that Barry Soertoro isn’t the first partly black man to become in American history—he’s just the first to use it as a marketing technique.
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The bit about the KKK being founded by Democrats is true...Until you realize that before 1930, the Democratic party was right-wing conservative and the Republican party was liberal. And then FDR came along and that changed.
The rest is just nonsense and lies.
Out of curiosity; after a conservative mentions how the Republicans were against slavery and the Democrats started the KKK, and then you counter with the Southern strategy, how do they typically thereafter respond? I doubt that they tend to just back down at that point, they must have another stock counterargument.
And Texas was the proudest Democratic state of them all.
The change in the electorate didn't come until much later. The shift of New England from firm Republican to firm Democratic has taken over 60 years, but other regions show the trend much more clearly. Texas, as I said, was solidly Democratic, but the last Democratic presidential candidate to win it was Jimmy Carter in 1976. Similarly, California was, barring FDR's landslides, a shoo-in for the Republicans, but no Republican presidential candidate has won it since Bill Clinton took it in 1992.
@Mech610
Harding and Coolidge were both pretty conservative but, apart from the imperialism, Shes Texan would have been horrified by Teddy Roosevelt's administration.
"the same idiots who don’t know the KKK was founded by Democrats"
And in those times, I would have cheered for the Republicans - because they were the progressives. Conservatives, on the other hand don't like change, that's the entire point of the term.
<that Planned Parenthood was founded by a Democrat to keep “the number of colored races down”>
Americentric bullshite.
"that the first slaveowner was a black man"
That wouldn't suprise me - that would be of course because slavery was practices thousands of years before the United States were even founded and the first civilizations were almost exclusively created by brown and black people (Babylon, Egypt, India) all of which had some kind of slavery.
"Barry Soertoro isn’t the first partly black man to become in American history"
I'm sure some guy named Barry Soertoro became something during 500 years of Colonial and American history and I'm sure some black become something before. They probably also had better grammar than you, and given that they were successful, a better grasp of reality.
@Knight of Liberty: AFAIK, the switch took a while. The beginning was during the Great Depression with FDR's New Deal and solidified during the Sixties, when Republicans became firmly in the camp of "beat the hippies" and Democrats firmly in the camp of "those hippies might have a point or two". In the time between it was a political wild west with a multitude of issue that could be taken any which way in any party.
Actually, the Klan was founded by Confederate veterans and later college fraternities. Not the Democratic Party. Neither party founded the Klan.
@Mech610 - Hilariously the pro-Jim Crow/pro-Klan political wing leading up to the Civil Rights Era was called "The CONSERVATIVE Coalition". A coalition of conservative Southern Democrats allied with conservative Republicans to oppose Civil Rights (and other social justice movements). It's hilarious modern right-wingers try to pretend that liberals, the people who support multiculturalism, interracial marriage, gay marriage, busing, equal pay, immigration reform, amnesty, etc. (you know, the stuff conservatives hate), are the ones who opposed racial equality when the pro-segregationists clearly stated they are CONSERVATIVE.
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