That's a funny picture; I like it. Truth be told, those old Klansmen - and their modern-day counterparts? - are far more likely to be Conservative Republicans. RMN's Southern Strategy worked, and worked well. The civil rights plank in the Dem Party's platform in 1948 unsettled the Klukkers, and the party's support in the mid-sixties of the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and desegregation in general drove them to the Republican party... that's why you see the south painted red in elections.
Not quite professor. The democrat party was, is and will always be the party of racism. They have simply changed their tactics.
Lakota, you are so correct.
yt3, I am going to give you a brief histroy lesson. Republicans in Congress, with a Republican President, freed the slaves. Democrats in Southern State legislatures passed racist laws to keep blacks down, called "black codes". Republicans in Congress, under a Republican President, ratified the 13th Amendment [ending slavery, by the way]. Republicans in Congress passed the first Civil Rights Act around 1868. The first school was integrated in the 1950s under a Republican President named Eisenhower. The Civil Rights Act of 1965, although supported by LBJ, was delayed in the US Senate, by a filibuster led by persons named James Eastland, James Byrd, and Strom Thurmond [all Democrats], and eventually passed by the Senate when Republicans broke the filibuster.
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