> What do you suppose was their motivation for going down to Mississippi to stir up trouble? Couldn't they have worked on "Racism" problems in the very safe Democrat districts from which they came?
> By "political purposes", do you refer to some means of gaining political power, such as in Washington DC? So people from the NorthEast, deliberately travel to the South to stir up racial troubles because it somehow translates into power in Washington?
> By "political purposes", do you refer to some means of gaining political power, such as in Washington DC? So people from the NorthEast, deliberately travel to the South to stir up racial troubles because it somehow translates into power in Washington?
Get a load of Faubus and Wallace.
Where do the these people come from?
Selective memory + Faulty public schools?
I'm asking if there is a political power angle, because I have started to notice such things.
As always, DiogenesLamp confuses Democrats for Republicans.
As far as I'm concerned, that whole "60s thing" was a family squabble amongst Democrats -- Northeastern Democrat media versus Southern Democrat racists.
Republicans played a minor role in the media spectacle, and Northern Democrats defeated their racist Southern kinfolk.
Here's what one of the most powerful Northeastern Power Broker said about it: