That must be why Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt swept the South every time they ran.
And why Harry S Truman and Lyndon Johnson both considered themselves Southerners.
Come to think of it, Wilson was born in the South and FDR considered himself at least an honorary Georgian from spending time at Warm Springs.
That must be why Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt swept the South every time they ran.
And why Harry S Truman and Lyndon Johnson both considered themselves Southerners.
Come to think of it, Wilson was born in the South and FDR considered himself at least an honorary Georgian from spending time at Warm Springs.
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The South voted Solid Democrat because in the aftermath of the Civil War they were the only party that had any vestige of the former concept of States Rights under the Constitution left.
If you’ve studied history, you know that the Progressive movement first infested the Republican party (Teddy Roosevelt) then the Democrat party (Woodrow Wilson) whose control and perversion of the party, the press and the political culture was so complete that many in the SOuth never missed a beat — they just marched right along.
Calvin Coolidge managed to rein back Progressivism in the Republican Party to some extent, though Herbert Hoover once again tried to acceperate it as the Depression hit. The Democrats said “no” to many of his programs which they would later approve under FDR — only MUCH BIGGER. THAT ought to sound VERY familiar — it’s the SAME scenario that’s happened with “W” Bush vs. Obama.
History tells the story if you learn how to read it. Anyone who believes the Union sought to preserve ANYTHING other than POWER for Washington, DC has bought into the EXACT thing that BROUGHT us the plague of Progressivism. Did the Civil wAR “END SLAVERY?” Sure — it ended “chattel slavery” on the agrarian plantations of the South, and I as a Southerner would have joined BOTH Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson (neither of whom owned slaves and both who opposed slavery) in saying good riddance. But the Union REPLACED the slavery they claimed to hate in the South with the slavery of ALL men to a tyrannical government in Washington, DC that is only now coming into its full potential as the threat to the liberties it was created to protect and defend.