Posted on 02/16/2017 2:24:30 PM PST by Jonty30
Can anybody point to me a credible source on the Dixiecrats, as to why they split from the Democrats and infiltrated the Republican party.
It's taught that they split over black rights, though it is my understanding that they split because of federal interference over state rights.
The Dixiecrats were headed by Sen. Strom Thurman, split over desegregation from the mainstream Democrats. However, many still remained with the Democrat party, so you had yellow-dog Democrats that would vote for any Democrat, and that included the Dixiecrats.
Oh sure thing and the LKK came about to protect states rights. Remember please how Americans with a different skin color were treated by the democrats of the south as they try to justify states rights
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I like to be helpful as much as the next person, but it sounds like you're trolling with an agenda.
seems a search should turn up a cornucopia of information.
My searching has made it seem that they left solely over black rights. I don’t believe that is the sole reason, because the South is cultured to react to any interference over federal intrusion of state rights and would probably react to that more than anything else.
Very few left the Democratic Party. The vast majority remained in the Democratic Party in good standing.
The few who joined the GOP essentially accepted our view on race and citizenship. Because once you accept the constitutional and moral view on that issue, and you are otherwise conservative, there is little reason to remain in the DNC.
The point is very few switched parties, but those who did accepted our view. We didn’t accept their *previous* view.
To this day, you’ll notice, Democrats continue to be race obsessed. And because they are obsessed by race, they can’t imagine others are not.
If you are referring to the KKK crowd, or Al Gore’s bigotted Dad, they didn’t.
The racist Democrats of the KKK type remained Democrats - voting that way in local and state elections the rest of their lives. They just didn’t bother to vote for communist Democrats.
Now if you’re talking about nonracist Democrats who didn’t like the communists who infiltrated their party and took it over, they did to some degree become Republican at least in presidential elections, but often stayed Democrat voters in local and state elections where no communists were running as Dems.
Antiracist traditional Republicans as usual stayed put in the republican party- they did not go and join the communists that took over the Democratic Party.
Over the years since the communists have driven more and more Democrats out as they extended control into the state level.
“Progressive Democrat” being the newfangled name for the Democratic Socialists of America, a bunch of communists in the proverbial slow motion “march through the institutions” as Gramscii called it.
Now, in the years since, the DNC has done all it can to drive Christians and believing Jews out of the Democratic Party. That has to have an effect in what they used to call the Bible Belt. And it has. That is the reason for the big shift in the south from Democrat to Republican.
The DNC still bleeds Christians, and hates them for it all the more.
oh the infamous ‘southern strategy’
By way of a mythical transference of southern klan members into the GOP. Whereby the democrats conveniently absolve themselves from and transfer all of their Evil Past and Present onto the republicans.
Suddenly the party of Bull Connor Standing in the doorway of the schoolhouse and Woodrow Wilson segregating the military is a republican! It’s like Magic! So the democrats get to create a whole new plantation complete with life destroying Overseers and Drivers who will bullwhip anyone who thinks independently or steps out of line.
Biggest swilling steaming swirling pile of bullcrap of a rhetorical contraption ever devised. But repeated over and over again.
In a time of universal deceit, to tell the truth is a revolutionary act!
In the Goldwater/Johnson election I was in the 7th grade in Northwest Georgia. My home room voted: Goldwater 23, Johnson 7. The 23 votes for Goldwater were because he was against civil rights. The family that lived next door in the neighborhood voted Democrat even though they were against civil rights. They were FDR Dems. Tennessee Valley Authority gave them electricity and their jobs at the local coal fired electrical plant. Then in ‘68 Democrat George Wallace ran for the nomination for Pres. Most of the local white kids were for Wallace. The children did not care about FDR or Lincoln. That was past history. Then the schools integrated and black kids were good at football. Problem solved. If your team wins and the black players contributed then every one is happy. The welfare state is now the problem. Socialism is a cancer on the human race. It isn’t about states rights. It’s about earning a living.
Dixiecrats Erie not the racists. Democrats lead by al gores father lead the charge against the civil rights act. Don’t forget Robert ‘sheets’ Byrd, Hillarys mentor was high level KKK. RAts are racist and some things will never change.
There was a well documented study that showed only 2% switched from D to R nationally. Any FReepers out there remember who did the study???
This lie has always been propaganda to deflect from the fact that the democrat party is the party of the klan and anti-civil rights.
A handful of members of Congress switching parties doesn’t mean voters switched.
It was about states rights, but in a twisted way. FDR had courted the Southern Democrats back during the Great Depression, and it was a strange coalition of northern Progressive Republicans (yes, children, most Progressives WERE Republicans then) with the Solid South Democrats that got most of the New Deal through, including a considerable amount of clout delivered to the various industrial unions, (United Mine Workers, United Auto Workers, the AFL and the CIO), all much infiltrated with International Socialists (that is right, card-carrying Communists). The Unions had a sort of back-door deal, which they presented to the largely KKK members who were, incidentally, also the main force of the Southern Democrats. The KKK could keep their oppression of the black folk, and the unions would see that the blacks did not get hired by any industry, thus keeping them as virtual slaves, sharecroppers, down on the farm. In 1948, Harry Truman (together with Eleanor Roosevelt) made a BIG push for the blacks to be brought into the Democrat fold, with some of the first efforts at ending color separation, like ending segregation in the armed forces, and finding suitable post-war employment for the black veterans. This put the Southern Democrats at cross purposes with the industrial unions, who had broken their earlier promises to the regular corps of the KKK-Southern Democrats, and they revolted against the earlier coalition, forming the Dixiecrats, running their own candidate in the US Presidential race that year. The Dixiecrats were about as much anti-Communist as anyone in the country, but with no home any longer in the Democrat party, one by one they began to drift to the Republican party irregardless of the animosity that permeated much of the South after the Civil War. But in changing to Republicans, they rediscovered the real essence of America, and some of the best Republicans today are from the southern states. There have been repeated attempts to claim that the old Dixiecrats also carried their support of the KKK and suppression of blacks and Jews into the newly revived and resurgent Southern Republicans, but those attitudes died with the Dixiecrats as they aged and fell prey to time.
WHITE LIBERALS TELL BLACK LIES ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS
by Ann Coulter
Excerpt:
"Every single segregationist in the Senate was a Democrat. Only one of them ever became a Republican: Strom Thurmond.
The rest remained not only Democrats, but quite liberal Democrats. These included such liberal luminaries as...."
wiki might be a better source of this old history.
But basically to sum it up from a Southern perspective:
The southern descendants of confederate soldiers had been taught to HATE Republicans because Lincoln had been a Republican. So even though they eventually aligned politically more with Republicans they felt obliged by family honor and tradition to be Democrats. Busing of their white kids to black schools in high crime areas was the final straw which pushed them out of the Democratic party.
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