Next time a leftist tries the "party switch/Southern strategy" lie; blast them

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[Legion]

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[Legion]

MYTH (1): In order to be competitive in the South Republicans started to pander to white racists in the 1960's.


THE FACTS

• Republicans actually became competitive in the South as early as 1928 when Republican Herbert Hoover won over 47% of the South's popular vote against DEMOCRAT Al Smith.
• Then, in 1952, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower won the Southern States of Texas, Florida. and Virginia. In 1956, he picked up Louisiana; Kentucky and West Virginia, too. And this was after he supported the Supreme Court decision in "BROWN vs BOARD of EDUCATION" that desegregated public schools. It was also after he sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock Central High School to enforce racial segregation.

MYTH (2): Racist Southern DEMOCRATS angry with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 switched parties.


THE FACTS

• Of the 21 DEMOCRATS who opposed the Civil Rights Act, just ONE became a Republican. The other 20 continued to be elected as DEMOCRATS or were replaced by other DEMOCRATS. On average, these 20 seats didn't go Republican for another 25 years.

MYTH (3): Since the implementation of the "Southern Strategy", Republicans have dominated the South.

THE FACTS

• Richard Nixon, the man who is typically credited with creating "The Southern Strategy", lost the deep South in 1968.
• In contrast, DEMOCRAT Jimmy Carter nearly swept the region in 1976, nearly 12 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• Then in 1992, over 28 years later, DEMOCRAT Bill Clinton, won Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
• The truth is Republicans didn't hold a majority of Southern Congressional seats until 1994, 30 years after the Civil Rights Act.

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Racist!

Desh hates blacks, Latinos, and Asians, apparently.

These racist comments are all from her own her posts:

I spit in the face of the black guy.

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[Flash]

Kudos to Dachshund!

MYTH (1).... In order to be competitive in the South Republicans started to pander to White racists in the 1960's.
MYTH (2)....Southern Democrats angry with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 switched Parties.
Of the 21 Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act, just ONE became a Republican.

I agree that the Southern Strategy concept is somewhat exaggerated, but the article overlooks some changes toward Republicans that did have some racial influences.

1. Republicans voting strength had been growing before the 1960's, but the 1960s showed a reversal at the presidential level with Democrats losing most of the Deep South beginning in 1964. In 1968 Wallace won those states and that certainly had a racial component. After 1968 Republicans won the South in every election except 1976.

2. While Southern Democratic officials or voters did not change parties, Democratic voters changed their votes at the presidential level.They became presidential Republicans.

3. Republicans did dominate at the presidential level and eventually other offices as well. The "rolling realignment" started at the presidential level, then congressional offices, then state-wide and legislative seats, and then county offices. Most county offices did not become Republican until after 2000.

Over those years racial issues became decreasingly less important and few policy issues involved race. By the time Democratic county officials switched parties it had almost nothing to do with partisan politics. The state was increasingly voting straight Republican and Democratic county officials (and judges) were being defeated and they switched parties to stay in office.

The picture is changing in the largest urban areas as they vote Democratic.

[Legion]

1. Republicans voting strength had been growing before the 1960's, but the 1960s showed a reversal at the presidential level with Democrats losing most of the Deep South beginning in 1964. In 1968 Wallace won those states and that certainly had a racial component. After 1968 Republicans won the South in every election except 1976. 2. While Southern Democratic officials or voters did not change parties, Democratic voters changed their votes at the presidential level.They became presidential Republicans. 3. Republicans did dominate at the presidential level and eventually other offices as well. The "rolling realignment" started at the presidential level, then congressional offices, then state-wide and legislative seats, and then county offices. Most county offices did not become Republican until after 2000. Over those years racial issues became decreasingly less important and few policy issues involved race. By the time Democratic county officials switched parties it had almost nothing to do with partisan politics. The state was increasingly voting straight Republican and Democratic county officials (and judges) were being defeated and they switched parties to stay in office. The picture is changing in the largest urban areas as they vote Democratic.

THE FACTS

• Richard Nixon, the man who is typically credited with creating "The Southern Strategy", lost the deep South in 1968.
• In contrast, DEMOCRAT Jimmy Carter nearly swept the region in 1976, nearly 12 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• Then in 1992, over 28 years later, DEMOCRAT Bill Clinton, won Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
• The truth is Republicans didn't hold a majority of Southern Congressional seats until 1994, 30 years after the Civil Rights Act.

[gfm7175]

Kudos to Dachshund!

I am saving a copy for future use when ignorant DEMOCRATS repeat these lies.

I wrote up a little piece on this particular lie as well in AProudLefty's thread about it (as copied below) ---


The "party switching" BS is a lie. It never happened. Demonkkkrats, since their founding in 1828, have always been the pro-slavery party. Republicans, since their founding in 1854, have always been the anti-slavery party.

What is funny though is that the Demonkkkrat's own website starts off their own history in the 1920s with "women's suffrage". Why is that?? Why do they wish to skip over a whole century of their own history?? Oh, that's right, they wish to skip over their history of supporting slavery... skip over their opposition to Republicans ending slavery (and their subsequent formation of the KKK)... skip over their opposition to giving reparations to slaves (you know, the people who ACTUALLY experienced damages during that time period)... skip over the fact that Republicans formed and funded Howard University... skip over Demonkkkrat opposition to making black people citizens... skip over the fact that Republicans fought against the KKK that the Demonkkkrats founded... skip over the fact that Demonkkkrats OPPOSED allowing black people to vote... skip over the fact that REPUBLICANS elected the first black representatives and senators... skip over the fact that DEMONKKKRATS implemented and supported Jim Crow Laws... skip over the fact that REPUBLICANS were already supporting women's suffrage in the late 1800s... skip over the fact that DEMONKKRATS continued to support the KKK (and its domestic terrorism) in the early 1900s... skip over the fact that it was REPUBLICANS who led the women's suffrage movement...

Then, there's more history from the 1920s and on that the Demonkkkrat Party website conveniently leaves out, including supporting the lynching of blacks, continued KKK support, their mental enslavement of blacks via the "New Deal" economic benefits that they gave to blacks, their opposition to civil rights during the 1930s-60s, their internment of Japanese Americans, their continued support for segregation, the fact that a Demonkkkrat shot MLK, the fact that Demonkkkrats created the modern day welfare system, and much more...


Meanwhile, the Republican Party website starts their history off right at 1854 when the Party was formed, and truthfully speaks about their anti-slavery reasons for forming. It also gets into the fact that Republicans were the party to create national parks, have the first black governor, have the first woman representative, grant citizenship to the native tribes ("Native Americans"), have the first hispanic senator, have the first Asian-American senator, place the first woman on SCOTUS, and etc...


The parties NEVER changed. The Demonkkrats are still the same hateful racist compulsive pro-slavery bigots today that they were at their formation, and the Republicans are still the same anti-slavery freedom-loving liberty-advocates that they were at their formation.

[gfm7175]

I notice no leftist dimwits have come to discuss this.

They didn't discuss it in AProudLefty's thread about it either, after I brought the thread to standstill at post #3... then it was just typical lefty responses from that point onward that didn't even attempt to refute a single point that I made.

[gfm7175]

1860 election - Lincoln (R) takes the White House. The southern states go to Stephen Douglas (D) who believed states had the right to institute slavery. South goes to the racist candidate.
1864 election - Lincoln (R) wins re-election, the south has seceded. South continues to support slavery and racism.
1868 election - Grant wins easily, three southern states do not participate in the election.
1872 election - Grant easily wins re-election. Southern states are mostly split, Grant wins everything else. South again goes racist.
1872-1944 - The South, in a backlash to Civil War, goes Democratic in EVERY SINGLE ELECTION, with Republicans only winning six states during that entire period.

As a result of the Civil War being prosecuted by a Republican, the South goes full racist, supporting Democrats who are almost exclusively racist Dixiecrats.

1948 - Democrat Hubert Humphrey champions civil rights as part of the Democratic party platform. The racist South responds by running a Dixiecrat and notorious racist Strom Thurmond, who easily wins the Southern states.
1950 - 1964 - Democrats again control the South, but the hold weakens as Democrats push harder for Civil Rights.

1968 - After the passage of the civil rights act, the racist south runs George Wallace as an Independent. He easily wins the racist Southern States.
1972 - The Southern Strategy is put into place. For the FIRST TIME since the end of the Civil War, the racist South, in response to the passage of the Civil Rights Act by Democrats, goes Republican. Since 1972, Republicans have won the South in every election except for Jimmy Carters 1976 win.

Conclusion - The Southern Strategy played on the overt racism in the South to lock the area up for the next 50 years. The Southern states are chock full of scumbag racists.

Next?

It was REPUBLICANS who fought for and implemented civil rights legislation. Demonkkkrats opposed it... they even filibustered it. Stop attempting to rewrite history, moron...

[domer76]

This makes their brains short out and triggers them into rage mode.

There was nothing “sudden” about the change in philosophies, dumbfuck. It began, slowly, much earlier than Nixon.

Gullible moron

[domer76]

Sorry pal, but unlike you I actually lived decades in both the NE and The South. The NE is full of people obsessed with race and The South is full of folks who just don't care what color you are. So shut the fuck up.

Yeah, that’s why the NE needed sanctions under the Voting Rights Act.

Idiot

[MAGA MAN]

Yeah, that’s why the NE needed sanctions under the Voting Rights Act.

Idiot

Your new salutation is very appropriate.

[Geeko Sportivo]

Kudos to Dachshund!

I am saving a copy for future use when ignorant DEMOCRATS repeat these lies.

No idiot! First of all the Republicans formed right out of the Democrat Party.

But, the Southern States who were hell bent to Keep slavery took over the Democrat Party.

But even then, If it weren't for several Democrats in Congress crossing political lines to vote yes, Lincoln would have never been able to pass his 13th Amendment!

After the passing of the 13th Amendment- the Democrat party was still divided among itself with those who were from the SOUTH that wanted slavery and those who did not from both the South and the North.

It wasn't until the Democrats rejected George Wallace and his racist views by not nominating him as a presidential contender and thus rejecting him- did the Democrats unite across the party to stamp out racism and end it in America. ANd the Democrat Party has been united on that stance since then.

But since then, the RACISM flipped over to the REPUBLICAN SIDE- AND IT HAS BEEN A PART OF THEIR PARTY PLATFORM SINCE- Over the last 60 years!

Perhaps you should have paid attention during HIGH SCHOOL AMERICAN HISTORY class- or you wouldn't have to be corrected for your BRAIN FARTS!