Fire in the Night: The Weathermen tried to kill my family

City Journal ^ | 4/30/2008 | John M. Murtagh

[okie01]

and then after the civil rights act all those democrats you mention became republicans

You've evidently bought into the fiction -- peddled by Liberals -- that Southern Republicans are simply converted racists.

Don't know if you ever lived in the South but, for the most part, those Democrat KKKers remained Democrats (see Wallace, George) and accommodated themselves to the new reality of politics in the South. Or they dropped out of the political picture altogether.

Or they died. Today, you'll find fewer racist whites among the general population in the South than in the North.

It wasn't the civil rights act that made the Republican party in the South. Instead, as numerous studies have determined, it was a.) largely in-migration of conservatives from the north coupled with b.) conversion of ex-Democrats once their party made a hard left turn in 1972.

George McGovern had more to do with the GOP's growth than the KKK.

[rottndog]

There's a great campaign commercial right there.

My first thought exactly.

[Osage Orange]

I hear crickets..........

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

“Ayers needs to be stuck to Obama every minute of every day until November.”

Actually, Ayers needs to be in jail for the rest of his life, but I will settle for him being stuck to Obama every minute of every day.