Democrats were on both sides of the civil rights issue. Remember George Wallace? He was a Democrat. Most Southern racists were Democrats, in fact. Republicans were still associated with Lincoln. (By the way, it was a Republican, Earl Warren, who led the Supreme Court to ban segregation, and it was a Republican, Eisenhower, who enforced integration at Central High in Little Rock by federalizing the National Guard and posting them to restrain rioting and protect the children).
Republicans have not aligned themselves with the Aryan Nation or David Duke. When Duke ran as a Republican, the chairman of the Louisiana Republican party and various national officials called on Louisiana Republicans to vote for his opponent, a Democrat. You are woefully misinformed. In the is country, one can register as anything, but that doesn't mean that the party approves. One of the main quasi- Nazi groups in this country, the Larouchites, are submerged in the Democratic Party, as a matter of fact, and their leader has run for president as a Democrat in election after election...... |
