>>Democrats’ losses among Southern whites during the 1960s and 1970s after Democrats’ support of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
ummm.. it was Southern Democrats (Russell, Byrd, Thurmond, etc) that filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and tried to filibuster the Voting Rights Act.
More lies and revisionist history from the enemedia.
The Democrats casually throw out insults like that....claiming they lost Southern Whites because of racism on their part REFUSING to acknowledge that there just might be other reasons....namely that the Democrats became the party of socialism and big government and centralizing power in Washington DC ALL of which White Southerners have always hated and been dead set against....yes going back to the founding of the Republic when they were all Jeffersonian Democrats.
By doubling down on the socialism and insulting White Southerners for not supporting it, they comprehensively lost Southern Whites. When you insult people and show nothing but contempt for them, their history, values and culture at every turn they tend to not like you right back.
The Democrats are in the midst of doing the exact same thing with working class Whites in the Midwest right now. It is “flyover country” after all. It must MUST be “racism” on their part - nevermind that many of them voted for Obama twice. Their view can’t possibly have any legitimacy.
Go ahead Donkeys. See where that gets you. I’m thinking it will work out as well for you as it worked out in Dixie where you get massively trounced in every single election.
Robert Byrd (D)(KKK Senate Leader for decades), George Wallace, Bull Conner, Lyndon B. Johnson and all the rest of the Southern racists (except for Lester Maddox) STAYED Democrat. The rank and file racists stayed democrat too.
I lived in the Jim Crow South when it was a solid one-party region and that 'one-party' was Democrat. When Republicans moved South from the North they registered as democrats because whoever won the local primary WAS the WINNER (because NO Republicans were ever elected to anything). So if Republicans wanted their vote to matter they had to vote in the primary -- which required registering as 'democrat'. Voting in the general election was worthless because the democrat always won.
As soon as the 60's came around and Republicans could have a voice in the racist South - and a chance at electing someone, Republicans ran to the court house and changed their party affiliation back to Republican.
All the Southern democrat racists stayed Democrats. Lester Maddox was the only known racists to become a Republican...
The Washington Posy is lying... as usual. Or Joshua N. Zingher and his editor are stupid...
Robert Byrd (D)(KKK Senate Leader for decades), George Wallace, Bull Conner, Lyndon B. Johnson and all the rest of the Southern racists (except for Lester Maddox) STAYED Democrat. The rank and file racists stayed democrat too.
I lived in the Jim Crow South when it was a solid one-party region and that 'one-party' was Democrat. When Republicans moved South from the North they registered as democrats because whoever won the local primary WAS the WINNER (because NO Republicans were ever elected to anything). So if Republicans wanted their vote to matter they had to vote in the primary -- which required registering as 'democrat'. Voting in the general election was worthless because the democrat always won.
As soon as the 60's came around and Republicans could have a voice in the racist South - and a chance at electing someone, Republicans ran to the court house and changed their party affiliation back to Republican.
All the Southern democrat racists stayed Democrats. Lester Maddox was the only known racists to become a Republican...
The Washington Post is lying... as usual. Or Joshua N. Zingher and his editor are stupid...