Posted on 12/10/2014 6:09:25 AM PST by armydawg505
After President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he reportedly told a fellow Democrat that the party had lost the South for a long time to come. It took more than a generation for old Southern loyalties to the Democrats to fade, but that vision was realized this weekend.
As Mary Landrieu, a Democratic senator from Louisiana, lost re-election in Saturday’s runoff election, as expected, the Republicans vanquished the last vestige of Democratic strength in the once solidly Democratic Deep South. In a region stretching from the high plains of Texas to the Atlantic coast of the Carolinas, Republicans control not only every Senate seat, but every governor’s mansion and every state legislative body.
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Senator Mary L. Landrieu this week in New Roads, La. Ms. Landrieu, a Democrat, faces Representative Bill Cassidy, a Republican, in a runoff election Saturday.In Louisiana Runoff Election, Senator Landrieu Tries to Revive Her BaseDEC. 4, 2014 Democrats held or controlled nearly every one of them when Mr. Johnson signed that bill in 1964. And they still held a majority as recently as a decade ago. Ms. Landrieu’s defeat essentially marked an end to the era of the Southern Democrats: the conservative, Southern, white officials, supported by white Southerners, whose conflicted views helped define American politics for half a century.
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We still have Dem. Nelson in Florida.
Thanks to the DemocRats moving in from the north.
The only Rat holdouts in the South are liberal cities like Atlanta, Nashville, Miami, and Memphis. Practically the rest of the entire South is conservative.
“Ms. Landrieu’s defeat essentially marked an end to the era of the Southern Democrats: the conservative, Southern, white officials, supported by white Southerners, whose conflicted views helped define American politics for half a century.”
Not sure I know exactly what that means but since it’s from the nyslimes I’m pretty sure it’s a slam at the Right.
Unfortunately look who many of the Republicans are.. Linda Graham, Turtleman, Lamar, Hucknanny, etc.
The only difference is they are Christian Socialist as opposed to the Secular Socialist up north
What??? He said the exact opposite.
Well, what he said was he'd have blacks voting DemocRAT for the next hundred years. Although he didn't use the word "blacks". He used a much more vulgar term. A term that only blacks and dead white West Virginia Senators can use.
“Rust never sleeps”
From my perspective, the classical of the white southern Democrat is one rooted in a long history. One that is not being replenished with same. Democrats are trying to continue to enslave white southerners into the entitlement plantation, and they are having some success with SNAP, section 8, etc. But it still isn’t enough. Their more aged traditional white Democrats are dying and not being replaced with the same kind of people, frankly.
Georgia Democrats tried to relive some of that old glory with the nomination of Sam Nunn’s daughter and Jimmy Carter’s grandson. They were both soundly defeated without any runoffs.
The new Democrats that the DNC has been able to sway to the dark side are more self-involved, don’t work and are petulant - their capricious needs have to be continually satisfied or roused to action by increasingly more absurd warnings. And, it just doesn’t seem to work that well any more.
Reportedly???
Well, New York Slimes, who reported it? Who was the 'RAT he said it to? (for you grammar Nazis out there, to whom did he say it?)
Heh--love it---make that rust AND the internet.
Florida is the only state where you have to go North to get to the South.
Another example of LBJ talking like the worthless piece of excrement he was.The Voting Rights Act had nothing to do with it.LBJ...McGovern...Robert Kennedy....Mondull...Haight/Ashbury...”If It Feels Good,Do It”...Howard Dean...Bill Ayers...Obama Care...and other things...had *everything* to do with it.
I think if the 2014 mid-terms showed us anything, it’s that the weakness at the polls for Democrats is a nationwide phenomenon. Allowing liberals to portray this as just a southern thing enables them to imply that racism is the reason.
It’s clearly not. Just a southern thing, that is.
Blacks pretty much stayed home everywhere they live. Dems lost a big portion of the young vote, and they live all over. Women moved our way, or stayed home. Formerly staunch Dem party constituencies have all been de-energized. Though we didn’t win as much in the mid-west and the west, those regions also displayed Dem party weakness.
It’s the issues, the failed ideology, not the demographics, IMHO.
Well, somebody better give Virginia the great news, because we’ve become a leftist swamp.
It would be a sarcastic note, if not accurate for any number of reasons, to refer to Mary Landrieu as “The Last Dixiecrat”.
The purpose of doing this is that it would make Democrats froth and spew, again, for any number of reasons.
For those two young to remember, the Dixiecrats were a short-lived segregationist faction within the Democrat party. Existing only a single year, 1948, as such, they were loud and boisterous racists.
Importantly, though their movement folded, only one of them, Strom Thurmond, every stopped being a Democrat and became a Republican. The rest remained in the Democrat party until their dying days.
However, the racism they promulgated still remains within the Democrat party, even if the direction of its hate has turned 180 degrees, so it is now racist blacks hating whites.
So perhaps it would be more accurate to refer to Mary Landrieu as “The Last Neo-Dixiecrat”.
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