jimmy hanging out with maduro and chavez.
jimmy was a fond admirer of dictators.
Posted on 12/30/2024 2:59:01 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
On the day he was sworn in as governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, an ambitious white peanut farmer from rural Sumter County, announced that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” The declaration landed like the carefully calculated bomb it was intended to be in the South of 1971 — and landed Mr. Carter on the cover of Time magazine, along with the blurb, “Dixie whistles a different tune.”
But in his ensuing half-century of public life, Mr. Carter, the one-term Democratic president who died Sunday at 100, would be forced to listen rather helplessly as Republicans mostly called the tune in his native South, supported by white voters who were uncomfortable with the Democrats’ embrace of racial inclusion and abortion rights, and were attracted to the small-government, low-tax promises of the party of Ronald Reagan.
Indeed, after Mr. Carter’s ascension to the White House, the states of the old Confederacy would go on to become, with a few exceptions, a crucial base of support for Republican presidential candidates. Much of that support came from Mr. Carter’s fellow Southern evangelicals, who turned sharply away from him and the Democrats during his presidential term. They became one of the most loyal Republican voting blocs and remain so to this day.
That was part of a shift that had begun in the early 1960s, as Republicans found a way to chip and then blast away at what had been a solidly Democratic South since the end of Reconstruction. Southerners’ fealty to the party had been based on their appreciation for Roosevelt’s New Deal, and their bitterness over the 19th century Republicanism of Lincoln that helped erode the region’s strict racial hierarchies.
Yet Mr. Carter also helped to create a model for Democratic success in a South that has become increasingly Republican‚ a...
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“ This guy is 180° out. The south became MORE republican because it became LESS racist.”
Yep.
True, but it started in ‘92 when GOP lost the White House but gained 9 seats in the House. This happened while Bubba swept the south except for Viginia.
My mistake Bubba lost the deep south.
Maybe the Southerners recognized him for what he was.
For entertainment purposes only.
“Reagan and Bush carried numerous southern states in 1980, 1984, and 1988. Clinton won some back in 1992 and 1996.”
To this day, if Georgia is called for the Democrat early, it’s over on Election Night. Thankfully, that wasn’t the case this year.
And in the 1984 election, the Democrats didn’t even try to win, they ended up with Mondale who only won one state, Minnesota of which he was something like Governor, not sure about that, anyway he barely won that state. You might call that a turning point of some sort.
Indeed, Pres. Trump was right when he stated that we owe Carter a “debt of gratitude”.
So you can't think of anything negative to say about the democrats?
Obama did manage Florida and North Carolina in 2008.
The same tired old Republicans-are-racists meme. Whereas Democrats run the inner city plantations, and wealthy Democrats love that cheap, brown-skinned illegal labor.
jimmy hanging out with maduro and chavez.
jimmy was a fond admirer of dictators.
Chevy Chase on SNL pegged him back in the day on Weekend Update:
Jimmy Carter said today that he doesn’t jusge a man by the color of his skin but by the size of his nostrils...
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