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For some time, the democrats have peddled the myth that after the Civil Rights legislation passed, that the parties reversed and all of a sudden the democrats were no longer racist and the party of the KKK, Jim Crow and all other assorted atrocities against black people. Blacks have been fed a lie about the so called "Southern Strategy" and have been duped into believing it and voting against their interests and for a party that has brutalized them.
Their entire myth rests on three supposed "FACTS"
Myth #1: Barry Goldwater voted against the Civil Rights Act and since Barry Goldwater was a Republican nominee the republican party is racist because he made a racist vote. But, the truth is that Barry Goldwater voted for every Civil Rights bill that came before except the last one. Barry Goldwater integrated the Arizona National Guard and was ahead of his time on racial issues. He voted against the Civil Rights bill because he opposed the private property provisions in the legislation. He believed the free market should govern private property.
Myth #2 After the Civil Rights legislation passed, all of the racist democrats became republicans. Now this line of reasoning fails the logic test. If people opposed Civil Rights, why would they join the party that voted overwhelmingly to pass Civil Rights? Can anyone explain that? It makes no sense. Additionally, other than Strom Thurmond, no other democrat in the US Senate that opposed Civil Rights switched to the GOP. And Thurmond didn't do it right away. William Fulbright (Bill Clintons mentor), Al Gore Sr. (yeah him), George Wallace (more on him later), Fritz Hollings and Robert "KKK" Byrd all either retired or died as Democrats. Thurmond left the democrat party in 1948 after Truman's efforts at Civil Rights and ran as a Dixiecrat. When he lost his bid for the Presidency, he returned to the democrat party and then switched to the GOP in 1964. So the whole democrats switched parties falls flat on its face. Lastly, up until the 2000s, democrats still had a registration advantage in the South. If these so called racist democrats were so mad why didn't they officially switch parties? No, it wasn't race that drove the South to the GOP, it was economic issues.
Myth #3 Richard Nixon ran a campaign in 1968 based on "code words" designed to appeal to the racist democrats and that is how he won the election. This is probably the most egregious lie.
FACT The lie got its start from a bogus NY Times article where an unnamed editor didn't even read the article which I have placed here for your reading pleasure. If you read the article which the editor did not, you will see that Nixon rejected the notion and Phillips was turned down when he offered to work for the campaign.
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/phillips-southern.pdf
FACT There were three candidates in 1968. Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon and George Wallace. George Wallace for the uninformed was the racist Governor of Alabama who ordered Bull Connor to attack Martin Luther King.
FACT Richard Nixon wrote in his memoir “The deep south had to be virtually conceded to George Wallace. I could not match him there without compromising on civil rights, which I would not do.”
FACT The Washington Post on September 15, 1968 headlined “Nixon Sped Integration, Wallace says” Wallace declared that Nixon agreed with Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren and played a role in ”the destruction of public school system.” Wallace pledged to restore the school system, in the same article, by giving it back to the states ”lock, stock, and barrel.”
FACT Nixon persuaded Eisenhower to put Earl Warren on the Supreme Court fully aware of Warren's stance on Civil Rights
FACT Among the southern states, George Wallace won Arkansas , Mississippi , Alabama , Georgia and Louisiana . Nixon won North Carolina , South Carolina , Florida , Virginia , and Tennessee. Of those, only North Carolina and South Carolina did not vote for Nixon in 1960
Now here is the craziest thing that makes absolutely no sense. Remember that guy George Wallace? You know the guy. He was a democrat Governor of Alabama. He famously said "In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." He tried to stop segregation in schools. As stated before, he orderd Bull Connor to attack Martin Luther King Jr.
Now this is where it gets really awesome. After George Wallace's failed third party attempt at running for President, he went back to being a democrat and ran for Governor of Alabama again in 1970. Not surprisingly, he won. But, here is the really surprising part. Despite Wallace's atrocities committed against blacks, they actually voted for him. Can you believe that?
African Americans accounted for more than half of the population the city of Selma which is in Dallas County , Alabama . According David Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Elections, Wallace won Dallas County with 58.3 percent of the vote. That means Wallace could not have won without a significant portion of the black vote.
Wallace also did well in Montgomery County where he won 48.3 percent of the vote. The city of Montgomery also has a very large African American population.
Lastly, the myth being perpetrated by the left is that the democrats were the champions of Civil Rights led by LBJ. That is one of the biggest lies of all. LBJ saw the writing on the wall. He famously opposed Civil Rights throughout his entire political career. He only came around when he was scared that continuing to oppose them would cost democrats. He famously said
"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."
Now, I have no illusion that these facts will change any of the left wing minds. They are too entrenched in their biases and their cognitive dissonance. Without the Mythical Southern Strategy, they would be forced to acknowledge their parties racist past and they can't do that for two reasons. First it would be too painful. Secondly, they can't afford for blacks to leave their political plantation. Given that blacks actually voted for George Wallace, it is clear that they aren't too keen on their own Civil Rights.
Their entire myth rests on three supposed "FACTS"
Myth #1: Barry Goldwater voted against the Civil Rights Act and since Barry Goldwater was a Republican nominee the republican party is racist because he made a racist vote. But, the truth is that Barry Goldwater voted for every Civil Rights bill that came before except the last one. Barry Goldwater integrated the Arizona National Guard and was ahead of his time on racial issues. He voted against the Civil Rights bill because he opposed the private property provisions in the legislation. He believed the free market should govern private property.
Myth #2 After the Civil Rights legislation passed, all of the racist democrats became republicans. Now this line of reasoning fails the logic test. If people opposed Civil Rights, why would they join the party that voted overwhelmingly to pass Civil Rights? Can anyone explain that? It makes no sense. Additionally, other than Strom Thurmond, no other democrat in the US Senate that opposed Civil Rights switched to the GOP. And Thurmond didn't do it right away. William Fulbright (Bill Clintons mentor), Al Gore Sr. (yeah him), George Wallace (more on him later), Fritz Hollings and Robert "KKK" Byrd all either retired or died as Democrats. Thurmond left the democrat party in 1948 after Truman's efforts at Civil Rights and ran as a Dixiecrat. When he lost his bid for the Presidency, he returned to the democrat party and then switched to the GOP in 1964. So the whole democrats switched parties falls flat on its face. Lastly, up until the 2000s, democrats still had a registration advantage in the South. If these so called racist democrats were so mad why didn't they officially switch parties? No, it wasn't race that drove the South to the GOP, it was economic issues.
Myth #3 Richard Nixon ran a campaign in 1968 based on "code words" designed to appeal to the racist democrats and that is how he won the election. This is probably the most egregious lie.
FACT The lie got its start from a bogus NY Times article where an unnamed editor didn't even read the article which I have placed here for your reading pleasure. If you read the article which the editor did not, you will see that Nixon rejected the notion and Phillips was turned down when he offered to work for the campaign.
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/phillips-southern.pdf
FACT There were three candidates in 1968. Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon and George Wallace. George Wallace for the uninformed was the racist Governor of Alabama who ordered Bull Connor to attack Martin Luther King.
FACT Richard Nixon wrote in his memoir “The deep south had to be virtually conceded to George Wallace. I could not match him there without compromising on civil rights, which I would not do.”
FACT The Washington Post on September 15, 1968 headlined “Nixon Sped Integration, Wallace says” Wallace declared that Nixon agreed with Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren and played a role in ”the destruction of public school system.” Wallace pledged to restore the school system, in the same article, by giving it back to the states ”lock, stock, and barrel.”
FACT Nixon persuaded Eisenhower to put Earl Warren on the Supreme Court fully aware of Warren's stance on Civil Rights
FACT Among the southern states, George Wallace won Arkansas , Mississippi , Alabama , Georgia and Louisiana . Nixon won North Carolina , South Carolina , Florida , Virginia , and Tennessee. Of those, only North Carolina and South Carolina did not vote for Nixon in 1960
Now here is the craziest thing that makes absolutely no sense. Remember that guy George Wallace? You know the guy. He was a democrat Governor of Alabama. He famously said "In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." He tried to stop segregation in schools. As stated before, he orderd Bull Connor to attack Martin Luther King Jr.
Now this is where it gets really awesome. After George Wallace's failed third party attempt at running for President, he went back to being a democrat and ran for Governor of Alabama again in 1970. Not surprisingly, he won. But, here is the really surprising part. Despite Wallace's atrocities committed against blacks, they actually voted for him. Can you believe that?
African Americans accounted for more than half of the population the city of Selma which is in Dallas County , Alabama . According David Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Elections, Wallace won Dallas County with 58.3 percent of the vote. That means Wallace could not have won without a significant portion of the black vote.
Wallace also did well in Montgomery County where he won 48.3 percent of the vote. The city of Montgomery also has a very large African American population.
Lastly, the myth being perpetrated by the left is that the democrats were the champions of Civil Rights led by LBJ. That is one of the biggest lies of all. LBJ saw the writing on the wall. He famously opposed Civil Rights throughout his entire political career. He only came around when he was scared that continuing to oppose them would cost democrats. He famously said
"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."
Now, I have no illusion that these facts will change any of the left wing minds. They are too entrenched in their biases and their cognitive dissonance. Without the Mythical Southern Strategy, they would be forced to acknowledge their parties racist past and they can't do that for two reasons. First it would be too painful. Secondly, they can't afford for blacks to leave their political plantation. Given that blacks actually voted for George Wallace, it is clear that they aren't too keen on their own Civil Rights.
