[FloridaSunrise]

Wasn’t Martin Luther King, Jr. also a Republican?

No big deal, he was from the Teddy Roosevelt-Tom Dewey-Mike Castle wing of the Republican Party

[Michael Zak]

Before leaving the GOP, Theodore Roosevelt was fine.

It was Thomas Dewey who put Richard Nixon on the Eisenhower ticket in 1952.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

No big deal, he was from the Teddy Roosevelt-Tom Dewey-Mike Castle wing of the Republican Party

That was a preferable alternative to the Democratic Party of Theodore Bilbo and the Dixiecrats. And with its imperfections, the Tom Dewey Republican Party is a much better model than the big government Democratic Party of FDR, LBJ and Bilbo.

[goat granny]

Before the civil right law, most negro's were republican, because the democrats wouldn't let them join the party...Condolessa Rice made the same statement at the republican convention way back when...

African american label came in during the 70's I believe...it has changed a couple of times over the years by the democrat blacks, but before the 70's the term negro was not considered an insult..naacp...THE CP STANDS FOR COLORED PEOPLE. Maybe not politically correct today, but certainly not an insult...