First of all, the problems with the Dixiecrats does not define the Democratic party, FDR's administration does, and the policies of the last hundred years, which have been consistently better by the Democrats.
The best example might be to look at the type of people each party put on the Supreme court. In the last 80 years the Republicans have made horrible appointments of, idiots, religious zealots, and criminals, like Alito and Thomas, Scalia and Rhinquest.
In fact the only two good one's they appointed were mistakes,, they vowed never to repeat: Souter and Warren!
So if FDR had to make a deal with the devil (southern slave states) to get the New Deal, that is a dilemma and a dilemma does not have a logical solution, e.g. Sophie's Choice, so only an existential decision could be made!
So if giving in to the white supremacist Southern system of Jim Crow was necessary, then that seems the smart decision at the time.
You are old enough to know how horrible the Great Depression was! People were starving and desperate.
The thing is, imagine if a Republican had been in office, like Hoover, nothing would have been done like the New Deal, including standing up to the Southern White supremacists!
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"The Dixiecrats have never controlled the policy of the Democrats for the last 100 years"
They were Democrats, and they were still controlling things when Kennedy was elected.
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"The modern Democratic party starts with FDR who defined it"
He defined it by ignoring race.
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. A National Struggle . ...
THIRTEEN - New York Public Media
To ensure the passage of New Deal legislation, Roosevelt could not afford to offend Southern Democrats by challenging the white supremacist system of Jim Crow. |
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