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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HairBall who wrote (17512)	4/23/2004 7:58:13 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Southern Republicans were Dixiecrat Democrats in 1964. It wasn't until Nixon's era when the GOP made a move to bring the old segregationist anti-Civil rights Democrats into the GOP. They succeeded. The last remaining Dixiecrat is Zell Miller, who's now so senile he's tottering. Therefore, the Democratic party in 1964 is much different than today. Now what we need is for more moderate Republicans to leave the GOP and join the Dems. Moderate Republicans have no business supporting the extreme rightwing Cheney-Bush regime.

To: HairBall who wrote (17512)	4/23/2004 8:05:42 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

<<AG: I always find it odd when the Republicans are singled out to be racist by Demolib Socialist. While a Democratic President did want the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed, the legislation received more support on a percentage basis from both the Senate and the House from Republicans.>> Sort of leaving out recent history aren't you? Democrats were the party of slavery and segregation. The Republicans set the slaves free and crushed the racist south. But things changed. That's why so many segregationist Democrats left the party and became Republicans. Strom Thurmond is a perfect example of a racist who was driven out of the Democrat party by civil rights only to become a Republican. Steve Dietrich