“To point to a few Dixiecrats, which are called so because their politics are more like the old Democratic Party, and more inline with the modern Republican Party.”
Wrong and naive. That’s what the media and academia says. As I noted earlier to you Grant:
LBJ cherrypicked on all of Eisenhower’s earlier Civil Rts. Legislation. After all, LBJ opposed anti-lynching legislation over and over, as well as civil rights legislation and integration ideas. He, like all the southern Dems before him going back 150 years, was a bigot.
The Dems controlled the media, presidency, and academia in the 60s, so spin and revisionism was easy to accomplish. JFK was no fan of blacks either. His father was a bigot and an anti-semite.
It is possible that some of the old-fashioned white GOPers in today’s South came from Democrat families, but Bob Byrd—the only former Klansmen in the Senate—is a proud Dem, Al Gore Sr. was a big time racist Southern Dem, and Strom Thurmond was originally a Dem/DixieCrat. He only later switched because he was angry with the party since they would not let him continue to filibuster the 1964 Voting Act because LBJ was now president as the Dems wanted to pass the Act under him with no more delays so they could get the good publicity.
That Barry Goldwater, while running for president in 1964, voted agst the CR Act, was a mistake. But he only voted against it because he preferred the original one—–the better one, written by Eisenhower nearly a decade prior.
So, instead of lynching, enslaving and segregating blacks, Democrats now destroy them thru social welfare programs and inner-city “activist” leaders/politicians. It’s still racism.
Ignorance of history (and revisionism) is a proud tradition of today’s Democrat Party.
Please read this over and over. You seem like a reasonable guy.
