Visual representation of political ideology through the years

xkcd.com ^ | 10/29/2012 | xkcd (Randall Munroe)

[HenryArmitage]

a graphic of how the political parties and ideologies shifted in the two houses through history .. click link to view

[HenryArmitage]

not sure if posting to xkcd is allowed.. or how to post when the item of intrest is just a big image.

[Boiling point]

Chart is very tough to follow.

[SpirituTuo]

They have the typical mistake of claiming Democrats supported the Civil Rights movement, when in fact, they didn’t.

I do like how they accurately state that Sen. Byrd who, “most closely resembled like Palpatine.”

[HenryArmitage]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#By_party Looks like a majority of both parties did, their southern members on the other hand.. Looks like it was another North vs South.

[Wuli]

no way to tell what the author means by “far right”

and besides, as is clear on the Democrat side of the chart

party identification IS NOT synonymous with ideologicl identification - for instance many “far left” Marxists have run/obtained office as Democrats

altogether I think there is a leftward political bias in the authors’ chart