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As history remembers it, It was the origination of the Republican party that freed the slaves and from 1869-1935, every black Senator was Republican.
Black-American Representatives and Senators by Congress, 1870–Present |
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It's fair to tar the Democratic party with accepting the racist white southerners for so long. It's a shameful past and there's no excuse for it, really. But the opposition to civil rights, Jim Crow, and more was nearly all in the South, white conservatives, who ruled every institution of power in the south for 100 years post Civil War, state, local, national government, business leaders, church leaders, universities, and more - all white, all opposed to civil rights as institutions.
In states outside the south, for example, the KKK was mostly Republicans. For example, Indiana had the largest KKK organization in the country and that state was mostly ruled by Republicans.
So the problem as I see it in 2020 isn't that the Democratic party won't own up to its racist past. It did that, and way too late but very forcefully said in 1964 that the racist white southerners could go **** themselves, and the party as a whole jammed the CRA right over the heads of the southern Democrats that controlled much of Congress, then when the southern states balked at implementing it, LBJ sent troops down to the South to keep the segregationists in line. The party hasn't swayed from that over the next half century.
The problem is the South hasn't ever come to grips with our past. Fake history like you're pushing is more of the denial - it wasn't the white southern power structure at every level that was racist - it was....DEMOCRATS!!!! Well, that's damn convenient when you're now a republican in a lily white party that tried and succeeded in THIS ERA in gutting the Voting Rights Act that you're applauding elsewhere on this thread. So you want to give the GOP all the credit for the VRA in 1965, but pretend it's not significant that in this era, the current GOP tried and succeeded in dismantling much of it, then as soon as the ink was dry on that, proceeded to prove why the VRA was necessary. See, e.g., NC and Texas where the GOP pushed voting rules that so targeted minorities, with "surgical precision" in NC, the courts were forced to strike them down as discriminatory, which was the intent of course.