What is it with "conservatives" and "independents" and their refusal to use or even understand correct grammar? It is the Democratic Party, not the "democrat party".
Anyone who believes in this day, that the parties have not flipped is simply denying reality. In 1956, the GOP party platform, advocated for minimum wage increases, supported labor unions, said expanding Social Security was a good thing, pushed for laws calling for equal pay for equal work and promoted an expansion of refugee programs.
The modern GOP has some members pushing for the elimination of minimum wage all together, is loudly promoting "right to work" laws that are targeted on labor unions, wants to privatise Social Security, is not in favour of gender equality in the work place and rants about "illegal immigrants". So, yeah the parties have "flipped" and those who deny history are a major aspect of the problem with communication in this country.
This is a deception intended to minimize the sordid history of the Democratic Partys gleeful involvement in a conga line of evils from their origins in the trail of tears to their more overt support of slavery, segregation, lynchings, forced sterilization, support of fascism, and Japanese American internment. Progressive Democrats seek to evade the judgement of history by covering it up or destroying history. This is the tale of the big switch devised by yahoos like Dan Carter and Earl and Merle Black. This is a transparent effort to rescue "progressive" and Democratic Party history.....This tale is Democrats see the light somehow starting with the Civil Rights Movement and become "the good guys" while Republicans become the "bad guys". In reality of the over 1500 racist democrats in Congress, Governors,Justicies, and all those that opposed the Civil Rights Movement....14 actually changed parties...yes...less than 1 percent. The idea that racist Democrats somehow became Republicans is a lie and a strategic myth.
As the people in the South became less racist over time...This becomes the time period of Republican ascendancy.
Most southern whites became Republican for economic reason.
The racists remained loyal to the Democratic Party until they die.
"Blacks clearly didn’t switch for reasons of race because the Democratic Party was, in the 1930s, the undisputed home of racism. It remained so until at least the early 1960s. (I say “at least” because I believe that modern progressive Democratic ideology remains infused with racism, although this racism manifests itself in a new way.) So many blacks switched reluctantly, because they knew they were leaving the party of Lincoln for the party of segregation, lynching, and the Ku Klux Klan.
Why did they do it? They did it because the Democrats promised them economic benefits. These benefits meant a great deal to blacks then living through the hardships of segregation and the Great Depression. Democrats offered blacks some of the same security that blacks had during slavery—in which the basic needs of blacks were met on the plantation—and blacks, during a desperate time, went for it.
his was one of the most significant political transformations in American history. Long-term, it has proven to be a terrible bargain for blacks. They have remained the worst-off group in America, surpassed even by poverty-stricken immigrants who came to this country much later with nothing. The inner city remains a kind of Third World enclave in America, and whether or not blacks realize it, the Democrats intend to keep it that way.
Yet counterproductive though the black shift of political allegiance has proven over the past seventy-five years, I cannot entirely blame black Americans for making it. They were under extreme economic stress. And they were conned by the artful pitch men of the Democratic Party. These pitch men said to blacks: you have had it hard enough in the past; now you deserve to be taken care of by the federal government. And many blacks figured: after all we’ve been through, this is our due.
But if the Democrats were such racists, why did they offer to uplift blacks in this way? Here we find the
true switch, which was a
switch of tactics by progressive Democrats. Democrats had already tried various exploitation schemes after slavery, from segregation to lynching to white supremacy. Yet from the 1860s through the 1920s, the Democrats remained the minority party nationwide."--Dinesh Desouza--Hillary's America History of the Democratic Party