[wardaddy]

You’re part of the problem another neocon that thinks south bashing helps your precious GOPe to deflect smears from old media etc we’re all racist. And why do you Wobblies always have macho nicks?

FDR won by a landslide repeatedly so? Btw Wilkie was almost as lib as FDR was and tried to form a party with him. This is a blatant lie neocon GOPe types like you and Hannity and co have spread as a stupid canard that democrats have always been the social libs and GOPe social conservatives which is total nonsense. Dixiecrats were every bit more socially and foreign policy conservative than yankee republicans ever manifested with few exceptions and Jacksonian democrats have nothing in common with modern crazy democrats and so on and here you go to counter your clumsy attempt to brand southern whites as liberals based on FDR elections …study 1964 ….we are infinitely more conservatives like most northern whites but that irks you doesn’t it you just can't handle the truth that whites you virtue signal over as racist are better than you

[cowboyusa]

I am a 100 percent America Firster. Sorry, the South voted overwhelmingly for Denocrats until 1964. Then the great switch happened.

[cowboyusa]

Funny that you mention Jackson. He was 110 percent pro-Union. So we’re many Southerners.

[Pelham]

As a young man Ronald Reagan was an FDR Democrat.

When he switched to Republican and endorsed Barry Goldwater he said “I didn’t leave the Democrats. The Democrats left me.”

Reagan significantly never said that he regretted voting for FDR. And after he became a Republican he never criticized FDR.

You’re quite right about Wendell Wilkie being an ideological twin of FDR when he ran on the GOP ticket in 1940. Probably not a huge surprise since he had been a Democrat until 1939.

Robert Taft had been the conservative challenger to Wilkie in the 1940 GOP primary. The GOP has rarely run conservative candidates.