[gleeaikin]

For many years the Republicans were the more anti slavery, anti Jim Crow force in the South. The Democrat Dixiecrats were an active force for repressions. However, in recent decades many would argue that there has been a complete reversal of roles in the South, with Republicans adopting much of the Dixiecrat positions.

[okie01]

However, in recent decades many would argue that there has been a complete reversal of roles in the South, with Republicans adopting much of the Dixiecrat positions.

The Republican party "an active force for repression" in the South?

You're not from the South, are you?

[Bob]

If you would be so kind, please provide a few examples of this “reversal of roles”. The left has been making this claim for years but they seem to base it solely on Republican support for voter ID laws. There surely must be more to it than that.

[Repeal The 17th]

The south was democrat for 100 years just because of Lincoln.
Believe it.

[huldah1776]

“so many blacks who are personally conservative, but who almost invariably cast their votes for candidates who do not share their values.”

Witnessed by my brother who works in Philly. Remember though, these are working people.

When people don’t work, they become like the trees in the bubble out west, they don’t stand up straight and are weak.

[Ann Archy]

You aren’t a Republican, are you? WTH are you talking about??

[katana]

Please, other than a tiny few bigots like David Duke who tried adopting a Republican label only to be soundly rejected by the party, give us some examples of Republicans in the South who have advocated a return to Jim Crow, black church bombings, or discrimination of any sort. The role reversal in the south has been from black to white and white to black preferences between the Republican and Democratic parties. But if you’re implying that the Republicans had to become the equivalent of Bull Connor, Lester Maddox, and George Wallace to accomplish that feat then I think you’re off the mark. Southern whites moved to the Republican Party away from the Democrats for reasons and policies largely if not totally unrelated to race. The latters’ open embrace of socialism, anti-religious bellicosity, gun control, and anti-Americanism in general gave younger conservative whites no place else to go. The dwindling core of troglodyte unreformed segregationists have died off or not found a new political home.

[SamAdams76]

However, in recent decades many would argue that there has been a complete reversal of roles in the South, with Republicans adopting much of the Dixiecrat positions.

???

That's one of the strangest statements I've ever read in this forum. Please explain.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Um, what?

you do know you're parroting a common, and false, leftist talking point, don't you?