Don’t you see it’s the present that matters? Maybe the Democrats USED to be the party of bigots, but now they’re the one’s that aren’t and the Republicans have become the party of white rich racists. That’s what the young people and many others believe. History means nothing.
Well written.
I love the part where southerners respect history over change, northerners not, and the examples of the restaurants.
Worth a read, and worth reminding people of the history of the races and the big switch.
An accurate summary of the real history, marred by bad spelling and grammar.
Little things like that detract from the story.
PS: the New South Republicans did not start in Marietta with Newt Gingrich as is intimated here. The Unionist South - early Southern Republicans - were very much involved in the War, and operated in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. They opposed secession, although being relatively neutral on the Slavery issue.
Some of us out here are descended from those people.
Something that remains unexplained is what made blacks switch all at once, their vote didn’t change over time or have a transition period, it totally and suddenly and permanently, reversed itself in 1936.
Thanks for posting - a pretty thoughtful and insightful article! “Pinging” to follow up later...I’m one of those who think “history matters”!
Blacks have become more racist and whites have become less racist in general.
Liberalism’s power structure, embodied in the Democratic Party, could not survive without successfully selling victimhood to certain groups.
Therefore, the Democratic Party is racist by necessity.