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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (43603)4/24/2004 12:22:26 AM
From: lurqer  Read Replies (1) of 89467
 
Do you write these posts on a laptop that you take to the toilet. Because that post is surely full of it. Do you honestly believe there are any consistent readers of this thread that don't know what a load that was? In 1950, the Democratic Party was an amalgam of southern Dixiecrats, liberals and labor. Many of the Dixiecrats were racists - like Strom Thurmond. By the mid-sixties, there was no longer a home for the racists in the Democratic Party, so they left. But they were welcomed by the Republicans. Why do you think Thurmond left the Democratic Party and became a Republican? Why do you think Lott praised him as he did?

Are there still any shreds of racism in the Democratic Party? Well there is Byrd's past affiliation. And given its prevalence in this society, I would expect some other remnants. But you gotta search. After Nixon's co-opting the Wallace vote, little scrutiny was required to find the problem in the Republican Party - Thurmond and Helms were just two flagrant examples.

Each party would like a national majority. The real question is which party sacrificed that majority for the sake of moral principle, and which party sacrificed moral principle for the sake of a majority?

JMO

lurqer
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