They weren't?
Obama is a cynic wrapped in a hypocrite inside a bully.
Yes, on racial issues Rush tries hard to be as Politically Correct as any liberal Democrat. He likes to stress the fact that the Republican Party was largely responsible for passing the 1965 Civil Rights Act and that southern Democrats opposed it.
Now this is true, but there was also a significant Republican Senator who opposed that bill, and his name was Barry Goldwater. Those southern Democrats who were allied with Goldwater were an integral part of what was called the ‘conservative coalition’, an informal group that controlled Congress from the late ‘30s to the mid ‘60s.
If Rush wants to align himself with the Rockefeller-Javits wing of the GOP who passed the Civil Rights Act that’s fine with me, but he needs to stop calling himself a conservative and admit that at heart he’s really a 60’s Republican liberal or 60’s Democrat Cold Warrior of the Hubert Humphrey mold. He’s often far closer to them than he is to the likes of Reagan’s hero Goldwater or the old conservative southern Democrats whom he likes to portray as a pack of racists. That’s been one of the oldest tactics of the Left. If Rush wants to mimic them then he should at least take their name.
Yeah and Strom Thurmond was responsible for that, and it was one of the reasons Arizona was one of the last states in the country to recognize MLK, Jr.'s birthday.
They weren't?
Obama is a cynic wrapped in a hypocrite inside a bully.
Very true. And what has happened is that the Southern Democrats who made up the conservative coalition became Republicans while most of those Northeastern Rockefeller types became liberal “New Democrats”
Or as we say in the South, the parties switched.