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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (42275)	4/17/2005 12:20:01 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 173976

The old Dixiecrats are now all Republicans, so if you attack the George Wallace Dixiecrats, or the old corrupt big oil Texas Democrats, you are actually attacking the current GOP. Nixon's Southern Strategy worked, converting all those old racist southerners into Republicans. But what a price the GOP paid. Yes Byrd was a KKK member for a very short time about 55 years ago. But in those days, in his neighborhood, the KKK may have been perfectly acceptable. Who knows what Byrd was thinking then as a rural West Virginian kid? Since then, I doubt you can find a single vote of Byrd's which is anti-black in any way. Just the opposite. So who cares? Also, the GOP should not talk too much about the KKK. They have long-ago adopted that closet full of skeletons now as past of Nixon's strategy. Many of those same skeletons are now part of the NRA and religious right groups. Just look at eric Rudolph's church he was brought up in, teaching Rudolph hateful racism and bigotry. Similar to the KKK.