That figures since Democratic Party membership was required for KKK membership in those days. And no, those guys didn't run to the Republican party, they stayed where they were for the most part. They just changed tactics.
REALLY? Would you like to show a reference for that? Because there was NO such requirement. Again, you're confusing Democratic/Republican with Liberal/Conservative. The South has ALWAYS been the most conservative part of the nation - Democratic for generations, Republican since the early 1970's...but ALWAYS strongly conservative.
Sorry, but that sort of thing has been happening too often to not even consider the possiblity. Willful blindness won't cut it.
Yeah, since there's no absolutely-concrete evidence for either side, it MUST be a false-flag operation, hm? Do you even see the disconnect there?
LBJ was a racist and a segregationist, too. He never stopped being a racist, but he changed his tactics and ended up doing more damage to the black family and community than the fellow you mention would ever dream of doing. He could not have done more damage if he was trying, and I'm not altogether totally convinced he wasn't. Few people would say he was conservative.
Yeah, he sure did a lot of damage by passing the Civil Rights Act, by ending segregation, huh? And how many of your fellow conservatives - particularly the old ones who are on Medicare - are willing to give up Medicare? And BTW, how about checking out this map showing which states' residents have the highest percentage of people on Welfare?
Frankly, it should be us blue-state liberals griping about having to support the takers in the red states.
Victimhood is an identity too valuable to give up easily.
Yeah, there's no segregation today, right? That's why last year was the first year that one town's high school prom wasn't segregated...and that's why an April 2011 poll showed that 46% of Mississippi Republicans STILL thought interracial marriages should be banned.
Yeah, there's no racism today, huh?
Well, let's look at the evidence. Democrats still want to keep blacks dependent on them, they were dragged to welfare reform, which raised more blacks out of the ghetto than any other measure, kicking and screaming and now want to roll the reforms back. They still want to keep poor black kids and other poor kids in bad schools and don't want them to have any way out. (I mean to say, how evil can you get?) They want to eliminate a lot of starting level jobs by making them too expensive. They've made it nearly impossible for blacks or anyone else to reach independence by starting their own small businesses. Their economic policies have been a disaster for the black community. No, they aren't the same as the old Southern Democrats. They're worse. Who needs the KKK when you have the welfare state to destroy people, their families, and their communities?
Um, speaking of welfare states, did you happen to see the map above? Who is it that's keeping their populations on welfare? RED STATES.
And FYI, who is it that wanted to cut funding for poorly-performing schools ("No Child Left Behind") instead of giving them the funding they need in order to improve? REPUBLICANS. Who is it that opposes busing to give poor kids a chance to go to better-funded schools? REPUBLICANS.
Guy, when it comes to racism, you really, honestly, have no clue what you're talking about...and you're stuck so far inside the right-wing-media echo chamber that you don't even know that there is another side to the issues you're hearing about. I was one of you, once upon a time...but then I began seeing through what I was being told.
It takes guts to force oneself to make a decision ONLY after honestly hearing both sides of the story...but that's what I did, and that's why I'm no longer a conservative.
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