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To: null and void

Thank you for posting the list. The list is why there are Democrats who seriously insist that the two parties changed names over the years. With no reasonable explanation for their long bloody history,they choose to propagate the fantasy that Dem ideology which liberated the slaves was, at that time, called Republicanism and that Repubs ideology was at that time Democrat. But social shifts etc. caused the two change places! YES! I’ve seen it argued. Unbelievable! And that argument was put forth on the web vigorously even as the debate about former KKK leader (Dem) Senator Byrd was in full swing!


8 posted on 02/28/2016 5:59:49 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote
You're referring the libs Dixiecrat and southern strategy argument to explain way the Dem's KKK past. They'll say that all these Dixiecrats/racists left the Dem party in the mid 20th century when they became upset at where the party was going.

What they don't mention is that over 90% returned to the Democratic Party and only a handful switched to the GOP years later. They also say Nixon tapped into the southern Democrats to win his election, because those Democrats were former Dixiecrats and the GOP won the south for decades thereafter.

What they don't mention is GOP presidents just before (Ford) and after Reagan (Bush, Bush2) actually struggled to win the south decisively, especially when going against Carter and Clinton (2 Democratic southerners)

15 posted on 02/28/2016 6:51:29 PM PST by paltz
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