Subj : Re: "Cultural Terrorism"
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Fri Nov 04 2022 21:25:08

On 04 Nov 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> > equality. Today, of course, the KKK is firmly Republican, since the Sout
 MP> > Democrats of the late 19th and early 20th centuries switched to the
 MP> > Republican Party.
 MP> Based on what I know of George H. W. Bush's life, where his family was
 MP> Republican before that happened, I know that last bit is true in your
 MP> state of Texas, but it is not true in every state.  They did not all
 MP> switch.

That is true, there was not a 100% switch in both parties. But then again,
the parties weren't as strongly aligned on conservative/liberal lines as they
are now.

It was the Southern Democrats who were extremely racist and conservative, not
necessarily the Democrats of the north. There were very few Southern
Republicans at the time, because the South was largely Domecrat-controlled.
And that's where the "Southern Strategy" came into play: The only way that
Republicans could make gains in the south was to lure racist southerners away
from voting Democrat by adopting a racist agenda. Not just racist voters made
the switch; racist politicians did, too. And now the Republican Party pretty
much dominates the South, whereas it was dominated by Democrats from
Reconstruction (which racists *really* didn't like) until the GOP
adopted the "Southern Strategy." The South does indeed have its own history
separate from that of the North.

Jeff.

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