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Posted on 02/05/2004 8:15:23 AM PST by ZGuy
Bump!
This essay doesn't say what happened between the mid 1960s, when Republicans passed the civil and voting rights acts over the objections of the Democrats, and now.
What happened that shifted the black vote away from the Republican party? Did the black community leave the Republicans, or did the Republicans leave the black community?
A prominent Republican, Sen. Barry Goldwater, the party's presidential candidate in 1964, refused to vote for the Voting Rights Act.
His reasoning was clear. The Act applied in only 13 of the 50 states. Only the states of the old Confederacy were subject to the law. Therefore, it was clearly unconstitutional -- an affront to "equal protection under the law".
The Democrat Senate leadership and the Johnson administration refused his demand that the act be made to apply to all fifty states.
Goldwater, a principaled man -- and the furthest thing from a racist -- paid the price for his principals. And the GOP paid along with him.
It's good to finally know what the turning point was. I've had an interesting time reading spins of Goldwater's decision from both the right and the left.
It looks like the left did a better job of selling their spin to the public.
Billboards with a few historical facts changed weekly along the US major highways.
Good read.
History ping
There was only one outlet for news in the sixties -- the MSM.
The only "spin" that got a public airing was spin from the left.
In a manner of speaking, what Walter Cronkite wanted, America got.
The Canada Song
Until 1936 republicans always won the black vote. In 1932 Roosevelt got 23% of the black vote, in 1936 the switch was made, and it was permanent, in 1936 Roosevelt got 71% of the black vote while the GOP got the 28%, a complete and instant, and permanent reversal.
The democrat presidential candidates never had to sweat the black vote again.
If we could get 28% of the Black vote today we’d never lose.
What in the hell is this kind of ring wing propaganda?
Who was the slave holder?
It was southern white Republicans.
Where is the history on the north coming to free the south?
Didn’t we have a Civil War?
Well, that’s not even mentioned in this article.
Just signed up today. Racist, leftist and ignorant N00b troll. “Southern White Republican slaveholders ?” Whut ?
This is an old thread, people have bumped it over the years.
But having some Noob troll bump it was just weird.
Goodness gracious, I didn’t even notice it was posted in 2004 ! N00b just rode the White Lightning.
Yeah, and it was an 11 month old article when posted. Bumped in 2010, and again in 2014 by Ansel12 who pinged me to it.
Weird.
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