[varina davis]

There is a huge difference between todays Democrats and the Dixiecrats (Democrats) of yore. Read your history

[re_nortex]

There is a huge difference between todays Democrats and the Dixiecrats (Democrats) of yore.

There's no difference between differently named types of 'RATs. It's exceedingly simple and quite logical: A 'RAT is 'RAT by any name prefixing it.

[rockrr]

Dixiecrats didn’t come around until 1948. Please tell us the difference between the democrats of Civil War yore and the common day variety.

[higgmeister]

There is a huge difference between todays Democrats and the Dixiecrats (Democrats) of yore. Read your history

V.D. how about living through history for a better recollection of the facts!

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Of the 20 Southern Democrats that voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and The Voting Rights Act of 1965, only one switched parties, Sen. Strom Thurmond.

Sen. Strom Thurmond did move to the Republican Party in 1964 but that was because he was angry at the Democrat leadership for not supporting his apartheid views and not because the Republican Party suddenly embraced his racism.

In every vote in both legislative chambers, a larger percentage of Republicans voted YEA, than Democrats. All of those Southern Democrats stayed Democrats until they retired or were voted out and they made sure to bring up the next generation with their racist Democrat views such as Al Gore Sr. with Al Gore Jr. and Senator Fulbright with President Bill Clinton. (From 1964 to 1967 Clinton was an intern and then a clerk in the office of Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright)

So much for your ideology shift between parties! It never happened. Democrat apologists and revisionists lie!