Richard Cohen - with those blue rinse locks, the granny glasses with the angry squint, he is the little man who thinks himself a Washington insider & tough-guy liberal who’s not afraid to bad-mouth Southerners when they’re not around.
It’s an old & simplistic calumny - that Ku Kluxers switched to the Republican Party as the Democrats were embracing McGovern & Black Panthers. Very old, in fact.
So Sixties.....Richard Cohen is a one-note wonder.
“It’s an old & simplistic calumny - that Ku Kluxers switched to the Republican Party”
Exactly. Considering the fact that the republican party voted in favor of the 1964 civil rights bill in larger percentages than the democrats, why would those ku kluxers leave the democratic party for a party that voted in favor of civil rights by larger margins?