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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Sdgla who wrote (1156506)8/13/2019 11:31:24 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) of 1572928
 
"THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S long history of racism, bigotry, white supremacism, and segregation."


The R's short history...



Southern strategy -

en.wikipedia.org

In American politics, the Southern strategy was a Republican Partyelectoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans. [1] [2] [3] As the civil rights movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidate Richard Nixon and Senator Barry Goldwater developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South who had traditionally supported the Democratic Party rather than the Republican Party. It also helped to push the Republican Party much more to the right. [4]

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NAACP mourns Byrd's death | TheHill

Jun 29, 2010 - NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous saluted Byrd for his "transformative" life.“Senator Byrd went from being an active member of the KKK to a being a stalwart supporter of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights
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