Gosh, wasn’t it the DixieCrats — the Democratic Party of the Southern States — who enacted and enforced anti-negro and anti-integration laws for most of a century after the Civil War????

Wasn’t it DEMOCRAT Governors who “stood in the doorway” at their state universities in the early 1960′s to prevent black students who had registered from entering their classes? (Most people know about George Wallace of Georgia, but you might also want to look up Ross Barnett of Alabama.)

It’s also instructive of the Enduring Character of the Democrat Party to take a look at the Democrat Party Senators who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Many of the same Dixie-Crats who voted AGAINST the Civil Rights Act of 1964 managed to to an abrupt “about face” when they saw that the overwhelming mood of the country was toward integration and civil rights.

Look at Robert Byrd! The guy was a policy-making member of the Ku Klux Klan into his 40′s, but ended his 5-decade senate career re-painted in the colors of a sainted liberal!

I would allow that it’s possible for a person to reconsider long-held views and accept change gracefully.

But the cynical Democrats seem to have simply said, Hey! There’s going to be a RIVER of GOLD flowing to fund all these Civil Rights Programs, and unless we switch sides, we won’t be able to dip our ladels into the stream.

Democrats. Look at the open running sores of humanity they made into their Party leaders.