As I often tell my liberal friends...Democrats got us INTO Vietnam, Republicans got us out.
"Just like all blacks BELIEVING that democrats got them the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts. WRONG! It took LBJ going to the republicans because southern democrats (SENATOR AL GORE SENIOR INCLUDED) opposed it."
Yes, but northern Dems were the ones who really pushed for it, largely because their constituencies (minorities, labor unions, Catholic churches, etc.) were demanding it. The way I look at it is this: yes, the Dems (at least, the northern ones, whose successors are now practically the only Dems left) spearheaded those civil rights bills. But (a) Republicans did ultimately support it, and (b) that doesn't excuse the culture of dependency that the Democrats fostered in the black community. That dependency has probably done more to hurt blacks than civil rights has done to help us. Then when you factor in the Democrats' holocaust against the unborn, their inexplicable affection for spotted owls and Alaskan caribou over human workers, their misguided faith in bureaucracy to solve social problems, and all the rest, blacks should be angrier at the Dems than at the Reps.