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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months agohese were previously mostly Dem but after the deliberate Southern Strategy are mostly Repub. Are? Jim Crow was removed a long time ago and Republicans voted for it 80% vs 61% for the Democrats.
Republicans have always been about equality.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
Jim Crow was just Democratic politics and is still their politics.
barsquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Southern Strategy.
Jim Crow was by regressives. The same regressives opposed civil rights. And those same regressives today are in a cult formed around Donald.
Regressives today are still opposed to the civil rights movement.
Lincoln would be appalled to find that the Republicans of today are in fact the regressives he had to fight a war against.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Here is a partial list of racists democrats that voted against the civil rights act of 1964 ( there were alot of dems that voted no and I got lazy)and when they stopped being reps/senators. If the parties switched these guys wouldn’t be representing the racists democrats up to 2010.
George William Andrews 1972 Robert Emmett Jones 1972 Armistead Selden 1968 Wilbur Mills 1976 James Trimble 1966 Robert Sikes 1978 Charles Edward Bennett 1992 Dante Fascell 1992 Paul Rogers 1978 Don Fuqua 1986 Sam Gibbons 1996 George Hagan 1972 Phillip Landrum 1976 Robert Stephens 1976 William Natcher 1994 Joseph Waggonner 1978 Otto Passman 1976 Gillis Long 1986 Jamie Whitten 1994 Lawrence Fountain 1982 David Newton Henderson 1976 Roy Taylor 1976 Joseph Evins 1976 John Patman 1976 Herbert Roberts 1980 Olin Teague 1978 William Poage 1978 James Claude Wright 1989 Robert Byrd 2010 James Eastland 1978 Sam Ervin 1974 Russell B. Long 1987 John L. McClellan 1977 John Jackson Sparkman 1979 John C. Stennis 1989 Herman Talmadge 1981
barsquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Southern Strategy.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 5 months ago
When did the switch happen?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The parties never switched. That’s just a weird Democrat lie. Democrats use to have slaves and now they use welfare and dividing people into groups as their form of bondage
I’ve never seen a group so focused into turning a portion of who they are into defining themselves. It’s weird as hell
barsquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Credible historians disagree with you. You know, because you are wrong.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Not at all. Those same people stayed with the democrats. It is not republicans who are trying to classify everyone and put them into groups for different treatment. That’s the racism still alive and well in the democrat party. Biden didn’t want his kids going to a racial jungle.
Trump has never said anything crazy like that.
barsquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, sucks. Around that time, Donald was refusing to rent apartments to black people.
Donald has, in fact, said plenty of crazy racist shit. www.nytimes.com/…/leonhardt-trump-racist.html
You’re utterly incorrect regarding the regressives of today. You can check with any reputable historian if you feel like it.
Or keep your head in the sand and pretend like it is still the 70s and Southern Strategy didn’t happen.