Republicans Outlawed KKK 137 Years Ago
Grand Old Partisan notes this historic day in American history.
The Ku Klux Klan assassinated many Republicans including Republican Representative James M. Hinds (December 5, 1833—October 22, 1868) of Little Rock. Hinds represented Arkansas in the United States Congress from June 24, 1868 through October 22, 1868.
Unfortunately, there is still one sitting senator, Democrat Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who was a a kleagle recruiter for this outlawed terrorist organization.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 4/20/2008 12:02:00 PM
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Democrats still call Robert Byrd "the conscience of the Senate."
Michael Zak lied when I asked him this question on his own site. Can he answer honestly this time?
In the context of 20th century US politics, what is the “southern strategy”, what was it used for, and which party employed it?
Run away now, Zak.
You mean the Democrats' southern strategy to disenfranchise blacks?
Has it changed Yet?
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[In the context of 20th century US politics, what is the “southern strategy”, what was it used for, and which party employed it?]
is that like supposed to be a "gotcha" question??
in context:
excerpt:
[For decades after the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party. Klansmen murdered hundreds of Republican activists and office-holders, including U.S. Representative James Hinds (R-Arkansas).
On this day in 1871, the Republican-controlled 42nd Congress passed and the Republican President, Ulysses Grant, signed into law the Ku Klux Klan Act. The law banned the KKK and other Democrat terrorist organizations. President Grant then deployed federal troops to crush a Klan uprising in South Carolina.
Eleven years later, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned most provisions of the Act. Though legalized, this original version of the Ku Klux Klan faded. Why? Because as Democrats regained control over southern state governments, they could oppress African-Americans openly, without need of white sheets.]
Southern strategy
excerpt (takes a lot of reading, not just one liners like "you're a liar" (fill in the blank):
[Although the phrase "Southern strategy" is often attributed to Richard Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it, but merely popularized it. In an interview included in a 1970 New York Times article, he touched on its essence:
From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats."]
Red Shirts (Southern United States)
excerpt:
[The Red Shirts were one of a number of paramilitary organizations, such as the White League in Louisiana, that arose in the continuing insurgency of white Democrats in the South in the 1870s. Such groups acted as "the military arm of the Democratic Party." In contrast to secret vigilante groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, they were more open and used organization, intimidation and force to achieve political purposes of restoring the Democrats to power, overturning Republicans, and repressing civil and voting rights of freedmen. Also notable were the Red Shirts of North Carolina, who opposed Republicans and supported Democratic leaders and white supremacy.]
Bobby Jindal and the 'Southern Strategy'
excerpt:
[Jindal's election is evidence that the much-reviled Republican "Southern Strategy" has actually produced one of the greatest advances for civil rights in the history of the United States.
In 1872-73, almost one hundred thirty five years before Bobby Jindal, a black Union Army Captain, P. B. S. Pinchback, served for 35 days as Governor of Louisiana. He was not elected, rising to the office after his predecessor had been impeached, but Pinchback and his Reconstruction-era Republican colleagues ruled over the South with the support of freed slaves and so-called ‘carpetbaggers'. By the time Reconstruction was defeated as part of a dirty deal to settle the 1876 Presidential elections, Democrats had organized white Southerners to build what became known as the "Jim Crow" system of segregation.
Black Republicans were disenfranchised, the carpetbaggers were driven out and Southern whites -- the Democrat Party base -- re-took political power. The Democrats enforced their Jim Crow system through the Ku Klux Klan. Segregation was not simply a policy of government, it was a policy carried out personally by millions of Southern whites. The Republican Party simply did not exist in many Southern counties. From 1876 until 1964, Republican presidential candidates won only a handful of electoral votes from the South.]
White League
excerpt:
[In the Coushatta Massacre, the White League forced six Republican officeholders to resign, then assassinated them before they left the parish, together with five freedmen who were witnesses. Generally in remote areas, their show of force always overcame opposition]
The Racist History of the Democratic Party
excerpt:
[Wayne Perryman, an inner city minister in Seattle and the author of Unfounded Loyalty, in an editorial circulating on the Internet (Feb. 2004):
Most people are either a Democrat by design, or a Democrat by deception. That is either they were well aware the racist history of the Democrat Party and still chose to be Democrat, or they were deceived into thinking that the Democratic Party is a party that sincerely cared about Black people.
History reveals that every piece of racist legislation that was ever passed and every racist terrorist attack that was ever inflicted on African Americans, was initiated by the members of the Democratic Party. From the formation of the Democratic Party in 1792 to the Civil Rights movement of 1960's, Congressional records show the Democrat Party passed no specific laws to help Blacks, every law that they introduced into Congress was designed to hurt blacks in 1894 Repeal Act. The chronicles of history shows that during the past 160 years the Democratic Party legislated Jim Crows laws, Black Codes and a multitude of other laws at the state and federal level to deny African Americans their rights as citizens.
History reveals that the Republican Party was formed in 1854 to abolish slavery and challenge other racist legislative acts initiated by the Democratic Party.
Some called it the Civil War, others called it the War Between the States, but to the African Americans at that time, it was the War Between the Democrats and the Republicans over slavery. The Democrats gave their lives to expand it, Republicans gave their lives to ban it.]
disclaimer: Wikipedia is admittedy open to suspect, hence, not the best source, but i've not the time to re-educate some buffalobutt, so their info will have to suffice..
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I once reminded someone at work that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican and that George Wallace was a Democrat. That person had to go to Wikipedia to check because they didn't believe me on either count.
Racism is a source of power for the Democrats so they must do what they can to keep it alive so they can pretend to be fighting it. If racism goes away, they can no longer say that they are the party of this or that minority.
In order to continue to claim to be the party that stands up against racism, they have to ensure that racism is kept alive.
Orwell would be proud.
Still waiting for someone to work up the courage to answer:
In the context of 20th century US politics, what is the “southern strategy”, what was it used for, and which party employed it?
BG, let me help you out with a few more sites (apologies, I have not gotten around to finding the correct way to embed links):
http://www.geocities.com/mnsocialist/elections1.html
(this first from a Socialist site, of all things...):
Democrats hustle votes with racist "Southern strategy"
By Socialist Action's Editors
"Pocketbook Issues at Top of Agenda as Democrats Swarm South Carolina," reads a Dec. 31 New York Times headline. Top Democratic Party contender Howard Dean is quoted as promoting his "universal health insurance plan" as his bread and butter issue.
"This is not some crackpot socialist idea from some liberal state up in the North," Dean assures his audiences. "I want more than anything to bring South Carolina back into its proud tradition of voting Democrat year after year after year."
Dean's choice of words is revealing, especially his mention of the way South Carolina used to vote Democrat "year after year." These are Dean's code words for the days when overtly racist Democrats headed virtually every state house in the South and when Democratic Party governors and senators wielded baseball bats to block access to public schools, as Black students attempted to attend under federal desegregation orders.
Those were the days when KKK and White Citizens Councils were the informal enforcement terror squads of racist Southern Democrats—the days when names like Eastland, Faubus, Talmidge, Wallace, and their ilk presided over lynch mob rule while Northern liberal Democrats courted their favor. Today, clever racist Republicans play the same role in modern dress, but not for long if today's Democrats have anything to say.
"I'm no 'liberal' from ‘up in the North,'" Dean tells his Southern friends. "Dr. Dean's strategy," says The Times, "seems more focused on uniting working-class Southerners for a November general election face-off with President Bush than attracting African American votes essential to winning the Democratic primary." Outreach to Blacks, said Dean, will be left to "Black legislators and ministers."
Democratic presidential wannabe General Wesley K. Clark has got the basic idea. Clark, says The Times, emphasizes his heritage of "Southern Values," including patriotism, faith, family, and inclusiveness. "At every stop, he recites a biographical sketch long on Southern symbols and short on the final ‘g’ in words like living, helping and raising."
"An’ my stepfather took me out; and wen’ huntin' an' fishin' every weekend," said Clark (I left out a few more final consonants for emphasis—S.F.). Not to be outdone, Joseph Lieberman chimed in, "I'm the man in the mainstream whose going to build from the mainstream values that are held so dearly in South Carolina." The New York Times writer covering the Democrats’ swarm over South Carolina, Jodi Wilgoren, didn't mention whether Lieberman also left out some final consonants!
One Texas Democratic Party congressman, 80-year-old Ralph M. Hall, indicated at the end of December that he didn't need to pretend to be a Democrat any longer. Hall announced that, based on his close ties to the Bush family, he was joining the Republican Party. Another "family values" man, I guess. The Times noted that "Mr. Hall, the oldest House member, almost always sides with the Republicans on important votes."
In the Dec. 31 New York Times, the first of a series of articles on the Democratic presidential nomination race graphically indicates, as the headline reads, "Democratic Hopefuls Differ on Economy, but the Distinctions Are Often Subtle."
On the recent Republican tax cuts approved by Congress with the support of the Democrats, for example, all nine Democrats campaigning for the presidency favor repeal of all or most of the tax cuts approved by their party, a curious convergence. These were the same Democrats who, when President Clinton occupied the White House, supported the largest tax cut for the rich in U.S. history, $1.3 trillion over the course of 10 years.
Similarly, almost all of the nine Democrats advocate health-care spending in amounts ranging from $53 billion annually to $400 billion. But when President Clinton held office virtually nothing was expended for health care, not to mention the fact that the Clinton presidency witnessed the most massive cuts in social spending of any president in history.
And the African American Democrats in the race, Al Sharpton and Carol Moseley Braun? Like Jesse Jackson, they have a special role to play. In racist America they know full well that no Black will be elected to the nation's top office. Their role will be limited to registering Blacks into the party of the oppressor.
But Braun and Sharpton, pledged in advance to support whichever "lesser evil" Democrat wins the nomination, will expect some compensation for their services—maybe even a post in the Democratic Party. The presidential shell game is on, folks. Watch the bean carefully! What you see and hear is never what you get!
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American Thinker Blog:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/bobby_jindal_and_the_southern.html
A narrative has been constructed by Democrats and their media allies castigating Republicans as purveyors of a racist "Southern strategy" to explain the transition of the South from solidly Democrat to solidly Republican. If a tree can be judged by its fruit, this narrative is backwards.
Bobby Jindal, a second generation Indian-American, is going to be the new Republican Governor of Louisiana. Although governors who are black have been elected in Virginia and Massachusetts, this election marks the first time the support of white Southern voters has propelled a non-white governor into office. Jindal's election is evidence that the much-reviled Republican "Southern Strategy" has actually produced one of the greatest advances for civil rights in the history of the United States.
In 1872-73, almost one hundred thirty five years before Bobby Jindal, a black Union Army Captain, P. B. S. Pinchback, served for 35 days as Governor of Louisiana. He was not elected, rising to the office after his predecessor had been impeached, but Pinchback and his Reconstruction-era Republican colleagues ruled over the South with the support of freed slaves and so-called ‘carpetbaggers'. By the time Reconstruction was defeated as part of a dirty deal to settle the 1876 Presidential elections, Democrats had organized white Southerners to build what became known as the "Jim Crow" system of segregation.
Black Republicans were disenfranchised, the carpetbaggers were driven out and Southern whites -- the Democrat Party base -- re-took political power. The Democrats enforced their Jim Crow system through the Ku Klux Klan. Segregation was not simply a policy of government, it was a policy carried out personally by millions of Southern whites. The Republican Party simply did not exist in many Southern counties. From 1876 until 1964, Republican presidential candidates won only a handful of electoral votes from the South.
During the Presidential election campaigns of 1964, 1968, and 1972 this all changed. Civil Rights laws were enacted in 1964 and 1965 (albeit with a higher percentage of Republican than Democrat congressional support). Leftists sealed their takeover at the Democrats' 1968 Chicago convention. Segregation-minded Southern whites felt abandoned by the national party which had represented them not only through 90 years of Jim Crow, but also through the Democrat founding of the Confederacy and Democrat defense of slavery prior to secession. Segregationists staged a last-ditch effort to re-take their party with the 1972 George Wallace Presidential campaign, but to no avail. Their days as part of the Democrat "solid South" were over.
Spotting political opportunity, Richard Nixon's 1968 Presidential campaign made a concerted effort to win over Southern voters. It paid off. Goldwater had only scratched the surface in 1964 carrying five southern states. Nixon in 1968 carried six with another five going to the segregationist Wallace-Lemay ticket of the American Independent Party. By 1972, Republicans swept all 15 Southern states. Excepting Carter's 1976 southern win, the South has been strong GOP Presidential territory ever since.
Liberals have excoriated Republicans for the ‘southern strategy.' Republican Linwood Holton employed a strategy of winning black votes to win election in 1970 as the first GOP governor of Virginia since Reconstruction. Holton in 2002 called the southern strategy "not only morally bankrupt but short-sighted." A Google search for the exact phrase "racist southern strategy" brings up 1,130 links. By 2005, Republican National Committee Chair Ken Mehlman was apologizing for the southern strategy saying some Republicans were "trying to benefit politically from racial polarization."
In a 1970 New York Times interview, Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips was blunt in describing the strategy he perfected,
"From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats."
Segregation under 90 years of Democrat rule was the ultimate big government exercise -- controlling where individuals ate, slept and even where they used the toilet. White southerners were expected to enforce Jim Crow. But forty-three years after Goldwater, southern whites have been transformed into small government, low tax, "leave me alone" voters. De jure segregation is dead, killed in part by the fact that for the first time in American history, southern whites now follow a political leadership which is not based on physically enforcing the color bar.
Black representation in Congress has never been larger -- exactly as Phillips said would be necessary to make sure southern white Democrats don't "backslide". By "trying to benefit politically from racial polarization" Republicans have defeated 200 years of pro-slavery and then pro-segregation Democrat politics. In order "to benefit politically from racial polarization" Republicans have worked to maximize black congressional representation by creating black-majority congressional districts. These efforts transform the Democratic Party, keep segregationist Democrat politicians neutered, and drive southern whites away from the Democrat organizations. The Republicans in 43 years have produced results that are precisely opposite the Democrats' results from their nearly 200 years of "trying to benefit politically from racial polarization."
Racial hatred does not arise spontaneously. It is cultivated by political leaders seeking to use it for their own purposes. The divorce of white Southerners from the political leaders who kept them dependent on Democrats to continue segregation has changed an ugly socio-political dynamic dating back to the foundations of the United States. This does not mean that racism has been eliminated-far from it. But Bobby Jindal's election is the latest evidence of the transformation -- in a single generation -- of what had been the voting block of reaction and racism through all preceding American history. The Republican southern strategy has produced one of the greatest victories ever won for the cause of civil rights in America.
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From the American Conservative:
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2008/04/03/secret-origins-of-the-southern-strategy/
Jim Antle, over at the American Spectator blog, has picked a bone with Dave Weigel’s remark over at Reason that “George Wallace’s 1968 campaign spurred the GOP to take the Southern position on civil and states’ rights.” Not so, says Antle: Nixon “took some positions, like opposing forced busing and nominating Southerners to the Supreme Court, that addressed Southern civil and states’ rights concerns. But if we define the ‘Southern position’ as being George Wallace’s circa 1968, that was certainly not the position Nixon ever took.”
Antle is correct, but there’s another angle on Wallace, Nixon, and the “Southern strategy” that bears mention. Nixon didn’t have to look to Wallace to see the rising importance of the South and Southern concerns for the Right’s coalition. The Goldwater race in ‘64 had already shown what opposition to busing and support for states’ rights could do for Republicans. Goldwater only carried six states — but five of them were Deep South states that hadn’t voted Republican since Reconstruction. If the GOP could keep those states and reclaim Northern and Midwestern strongholds that Goldwater had lost, the party would be on the way to steady wins. Which turned out to be the case, at least for a time.
The two books I reviewed in the March 24 TAC, Alfred Regnery’s Upstream and Donald Critchlow’s The Conservative Ascendancy, both offer some interesting background on what became the Southern strategy. Regnery argues that National Review’s Bill Rusher had outlined the strategy as early as February 1963, noting that (in Regnery’s words), “a conservative Republican with support in the Midwest and West could make inroads into the solidly Democratic South because of Southerners’ discomfort with the civil rights movement and thus eke out a presidential victory.”
Before we acknowledge Rusher as the true inspiration for the Southern strategy, however, we should consider the plans that Clarence Manion, architect of Goldwater’s first presidential foray, had in mind for 1960. Donald Critchlow describes them thus:
Manion, the former dean of the University of Notre Dame Law School, hoped to rally conservatives behind a Goldwater nomination, with the expectation that when the nomination fell through, it would lead to the formation of a new, conservative third party. Manion believed that Goldwater could be enlisted to head the new third party’s ticket, joined by an unnamed southern Democrat. …
He was convinced that if Rockefeller won the nomination [in 1960], conservatives within the GOP would break to form a new party. Although some people around Manion spoke of running Orval Faubus of Arkansas (best known for his opposition to school integration in his state), Manion doubted the viability of a Faubus candidacy. For a while Manion hoped that South Carolina Governor Ernest Hollings might lead a southern revolt in the Democratic party, but in the end Hollings refused to go along with the scheme. Although Manion did not support forced racial segregation in the South, either in public or in his private correspondence, he saw civil rights as an Achilles’ heel of the Democratic party in the South. Anti-Communism and anti-big government drove Manion’s politics, but he was willing to seize upon dissension within the Democratic party, apparent in the formation of the States’ Rights party in 1948 headed by South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond.
If I recall correctly, Rick Perlstein’s Before the Storm also goes into this. The idea of building a conservative coalition by uniting Western and Northern anti-New Dealers and Southern segregationists had been kicking around since the ’50s. And Goldwater — who was no segregationist, but did support states’ rights — proved in 1964 that at least part of the plan worked in practice.
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You'll notice in that last that Nixon is exonerated of the lies spread by the Left.
'nuff said!
meatbrain apparently is incapable of READING.
meathead is a Parrot.
As we all know a Parrot only repeats what it has been taught to say. A Parrot only speaks and makes a show when it thinks it will be rewarded with a cracker for doing so.
In meathead's case he only posts to get a reaction which is his "cracker". You quit rewarding him and ignore him and he will go somewhere else to meet his psychological needs for attention in any form.
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thank you Otter @ 3:54 PM!! (thumbsup)
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Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Keagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
Democrat President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Southern Democrats opposed desegregation and integration.
Democrats opposed:
1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission
Republicans gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following
legislation:
15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
23. Civil Rights Act of 1983
24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988
Programs By Republicans & their Supporters include:
1. Many of our key traditional Black Colleges are named after Republicans Colleges
2. The Freedman Bureau
3. Historians say that three whites that opposed the Democrat's racist practices, including the lynching of blacks, founded and funded the NAACP
The Republicans:
Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s, over the objection of Democrats.
Republicans founded the HCBU’s and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.
Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960’s.
Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act Roll Call Vote: In the House, only 64 percent of the Democrats, but 80 percent of the Republicans, voted for it. In the Senate, while only 68 percent of the Democrats endorsed the bill, 82 percent of the Republicans voted to enact it.
Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican that introduced legislation to give African Americans the so-called 40 acres and a mule and Democrats overwhelmingly voted against the bill.
During the Senate debates on the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, it was revealed that members of the Democratic Party formed many terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan to murder and intimidate African Americans voters. The Ku Klux Klan Act was a bill introduced by a Republican Congress to stop Klan Activities.
History reveals that Democrats lynched, burned, mutilated and murdered thousands of blacks and completely destroyed entire towns and communities occupied by middle class Blacks, including Rosewood, Florida, the Greenwood District in Tulsa Oklahoma, and Wilmington, North Carolina to name a few.
History reveals that it was Abolitionists and Radical Republicans such as Henry L. Morehouse and General Oliver Howard that started many of the traditional Black colleges, while Democrats fought to keep them closed. Many of our traditional Black colleges are named after white Republicans.
After exclusively giving the Democrats their votes for the past 25 years, the average African American cannot point to one piece of civil rights legislation sponsored solely by the Democratic Party that was specifically designed to eradicate the unique problems that African Americans face today.
As of 2004, the Democrat Party (the oldest political party in America) has never elected a black man to the United States Senate, the Republicans have elected three.
"Spotting political opportunity, Richard Nixon's 1968 Presidential campaign made a concerted effort to win over Southern voters."
And how, exactly, did Nixon do that?
Once again, for the cowards who prefer to forget that the question was asked:
In the context of 20th century US politics, what is the “southern strategy”, what was it used for, and which party employed it?
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meatbrain @ 4:54 PM..
scroll the troll..
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The answer was given within the same paragraph you quoted from, BrainLESS. Nixon did what he did for reasons you refuse to acknowledge- far better reasons than the true coward- YOU- could ever grasp.
"The answer was given within the same paragraph you quoted from..."
Otter is lying. The paragraph in question contained no discussion of the specific tactics of the Nixon campaign.
Once again, for the cowards who prefer to forget that the question was asked:
In the context of 20th century US politics, what is the “southern strategy”, what was it used for, and which party employed it?
Asked and answered. I'd almost say you must be one of those failed leftist history teachers, like ward churchill, but I suspect you teach gym.
'Dean's choice of words is revealing, especially his mention of the way South Carolina used to vote Democrat "year after year." These are Dean's code words for the days when overtly racist Democrats headed virtually every state house in the South and when Democratic Party governors and senators wielded baseball bats to block access to public schools, as Black students attempted to attend under federal desegregation orders which were passed by a Republican, btw).'
Have you noticed, brainLESS? Even a socialist rag which hates America, knows who started the Southern Strategy and When. Although they do also make the mistake of trying to pin racism on both sides, you and I (well, _I_ ) know that Democrats OWN the vast bulk of responsibility for it.
Hmmm. I don't think you are capable of teaching gym, either. What do you do, aside from calling people liars on an hourly basis?
Otter is lying. None of Hoftwad's bootlickers have even attempted to answer the question:
In the context of 20th century US politics, what is the “southern strategy”, what was it used for, and which party employed it?
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meatbrain @ 4:13 PM..
scroll the troll
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