“...the Republicans have consistantly supported equal treatment for the Negro since the Party’s founding...”
The above statement is completely untrue. During “Reconstruction” the radical Republicans politically controlled the Negros just as the Dems do today. The power behind the Negro legislators did not really care about their advancement but used them as a block of power. The political control of usually illiterate or semi-literate Negros prompted former CSA General Jubal Early to state, “What a gentle institution slavery must have been to have so well prepared the Negro for the ballot box”.
The 1964 landslide victory of Republican Barry Goldwater in the deep South points up how the descendants of the Confederates were solidly Republican while the rest of the country supported LBJ’s “Great Society” socialist programs. Goldwater won Alabama by huge margins that swept in a whole slate of Republican congressmen.
I don’t dispute your characterization.
After all it doesn’t dispute my point!
Yeah, politics is hardly altruistic. I don’t think any fools are claiming it is.
Interesting info on the Rs in Alabama that year though. Think that was mostly a result of election manipulation.