The great canard is that the enslaving and Jim Crow Democrats all became Republicans. But those who say things like that have no problem with Senators Byrd or Fritz the anti-Semite Hollings, or Rep Moran. It's all a smokescreen to smear Republicans.
They all became GOP because the rats went commie
Has nothing to do with the black vote, obviously.
I was actually on a message board arguing with a college student about which party was the party of Abolition. Of course, this lefty just KNEW it was the Dems. I told her she was dead wrong and she called me a partisan, closeminded hack.
I asked her why she did not believe me and she said because her teacher told her what really happened during the Civil War. Damn, it's like talking physics to a five year old, LOL!
LBJ was a real bastard and pushed the Congress mercilessly and I'm sure that he went out of his way to get the Civil Rights act passed. Even then, he got about 62% of the Dems and over 90% of the GOP.
For people who live in the real world, the GOP did EVERYTHING for minorities EXCEPT affirmitave action. Bull Connor was a friggin' dem. All the racist BS done on the South was Dem backed. Hell, we fought a WAR with the Dems to end slavery.
Yet somehow the GOP is racist. Academia and the Media Matrix can burn in hell as far as I'm concerned!