How Deep Is The Democrat Party's Racism?

Pretty deep - it goes well beyond Senator Byrd. Was he around back then? ; )

The solution for the seven Democrats on the Supreme Court (the two Republicans dissented) was that blacks could not be citizens anywhere, North or South, so they had no standing to sue in court for anything.

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[IslamoLlama]

Wow. Dread Scott? Could you aim a little more modern? Like, I don't know... Gerry Studds territory? "Southern White Democrats in the 1800s didn't like black people! So don't vote for Barack Obama!"

I honestly don't know who your target audience is with this level of ignorance, but... damn. I give it ten years before Republicans start posting "LBJ was a fiscal conservative!" t-shirts next to their "MLK was a Republican!" nonsense.

[Worst President Ever]

The Southern Strategy - google it if you don't know what it is - was owned lock, stock and barrel by the Republicans. They even apologized for it.

Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman apologized to one of the nation's largest black civil rights groups Thursday, saying Republicans had not done enough to court blacks in the past and had exploited racial strife to court white voters, particularly in the South.

[Lala]

It’s an easy story to believe, but this year two political scientists called it into question. In their book “The End of Southern Exceptionalism,” Richard Johnston of the University of Pennsylvania and Byron Shafer of the University of Wisconsin argue that the shift in the South from Democratic to Republican was overwhelmingly a question not of race but of economic growth.

In the postwar era, they note, the South transformed itself from a backward region to an engine of the national economy, giving rise to a sizable new wealthy suburban class.

This class, not surprisingly, began to vote for the party that best represented its economic interests: the G.O.P. Working-class whites, however — and here’s the surprise — even those in areas with large black populations, stayed loyal to the Democrats. (This was true until the 90s, when the nation as a whole turned rightward in Congressional voting.)

[Worst President Ever]

I'll take the word of the head of the Republican Party - you know, the guys that ran the Southern Strategy - over the musings of a couple academics.

Anyone that thinks the Republicans didn't consciously pursue a strategy to appeal to racial fears wasn't paying very close attention.

[Lala]

Ah, but if the linguist Noam Chomsky wrote something challenging the Republicans what then?

[Worst President Ever]

Ah, but if the head of the Republican Party admitted they employed a racist strategy in the South, what then. Oh, wait, that's what happened. No hypotheticals involved.

[BobInStamford]

Yes, it's amazing how the party of Lincoln is now the party of Macaca and that tortured old man who voted against the MLK holiday. At least you have many stunning victories in Iraq!