Remember when?

[Scooter]

Could add things like, Republicans in those days were interested in protecting civil rights, not eroding them, etc.

[dales]

ah yes, a blast from the past

[Lord Jim]

That show was hilarious:

[rubato]

ah yes, a blast from the past

Walllace left racism behind joined his black neighbors and stayed a Democrat.


The Dixiecrats left the Democratic party behind joined the Republicans, and stayed racist.


yrs,
rubato

[dales]

Walllace left racism behind joined his black neighbors and stayed a Democrat.

I'm well aware of that, your second point bears further scrutiny.


The Dixiecrats left the Democratic party behind joined the Republicans, and stayed racist.


yrs,
rubato

It must be easy to see the world in an "us vs. them" mentality and distill your reality through a very simple hate-filled lens.

The majority of your posts have that broken thread running through them.

Oh well, that's YOUR reality, thankfully, it isn't mine.

/shrugs

[rubato]

More incoherent blithering.


The Dixiecrats were, and are, filled with hatred. And they are all now Republicans. And that does make them "them". Back in '56 the Republicans were an honorable alternative. After the "Southern Strategy" they sucked up to evil and that has been their nature ever since.


Wallace had his moment on the road to Damascus and got over it. He lost his legs but his eyes opened up.


yrs,
rubato

[Big RR]

rubato--as I recall, only a handful of dixiecrats (and the later southern democrats) became republicans; many more stayed in the party and became the Reagan democrats and the blue dog democrats of the present day. Like the liberal republicans, there was a not a mass exodus to the other side; they stayed and tried to make their agenda heard (and many times it was heard by both parties).

[oldr_n_wsr]

I never met any of those "hate filled" dixiecrats (rednecks, etc.). All I met were very down to earth and would give anyone a hand/food/shirt off their back when they needed it. Color didn't matter.

[Big RR]

Nah oldr, dixiecrats and rednecks are very different; the dixiecrats worked very hard to keep Jim Crow in place; color did matter. As time went on some reformed, some toned down the racist rhetoric, and some disappeared into obscurity or became anachronisms and jokes. But some still continued that fight. Some rednecks might have sided with them at one time or another, but it was hardly universal support.

[dales]

More incoherent blithering.



yrs,
rubato

Can't argue with that one.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Do I remember when?
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No. I was five years old. Stupid question