To: PhilCollins
"... the majority of Americans were pro-life, pro-gun rights, and anti-gay marriage." Absolutely correct!
In addition, there were many other differences:
- There was virtually no racial hatred between races... (Bigotry, yes. Mostly between Christians and Jews, Italians and Irish, Episcopalians and Catholics, Episcopalians and Jews, northerners and southerners, etc...);
- Black families were more than 90%, two-parent families;
- Negroes, mostly, voted Republican;
- All males had to register for the draft;
- Veterans & active servicemen were respected and supported;
- The streets of Harlem in NYC were safe enough to sleep in an open car when too much alcohol was consumed;
- Busloads of wetbacks brought thousands of workers to farms all across the midwest and busloads brought them back to Mexico when the crops were done;
- 90% of Americans wholeheartedly believed in the saying: "Better dead than red"
- America had the Earth's finest public school system, controlled locally and beginning each day with the pledge of allegiance;
- Virtually all schools, at least in the New England states, had gun clubs for boys and for girls;
- During hunting seasons, guns were allowed to be brought to school and kept in your locker;
- I got my driver's license at 12;
- I got my first car at 10;
- If you were sassy to a teacher, you got smacked by the teacher and reported to your parents (where you usually got smacked again);
45 posted on
04/14/2023 7:53:49 PM PDT by
SuperLuminal
(Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
To: SuperLuminal
Thanks for that informative list. What were the main differences between Republicans and Democrats, 1950-’70?
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