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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (495363)	7/15/2009 12:25:41 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1577020

" Democratic party is the party of minorities and civil rights..." because of Largess, the dems keep the blacks on the plantation but won't let them in the house

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (495363)	7/15/2009 12:58:59 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577020

In the irony of all ironies, the Republican party is now the party of white southern racists while the Democratic party is the party of minorities and civil rights... You have to admit the Republican party now allows darker skin whites to join the party and from what I understand, they have equal voting privileges.

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (495363)	7/15/2009 1:54:40 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1577020

Gore Sr was one of those old time Democratic southerners. So was Clinton's mentor, Fulbright. But Gore and Bubba didn't leave the party. Jimmy Carter got his political start running against school busing, calling for maintaining the ethnic purity of neighborhoods. And Ku Klux Byrd is still leading the Democrats in the Senate. The movement of southern white voters out of the Democratic party coincided with a similar move among northern urban ethnics - Irish, Poles, Italians - and was a reaction to the seizure of the Democratic party by its leftwing (call it the McGovern wing) in the early '70's. Southern whites were actually one of the more loyal Democratic constituencies for awhile, which is why the Democrats turned to running white southern Democrats for President - they couldn't elect anyone else for a period there. The Democratic party is still the party of division and ethnic and racial resentment and fear. Maybe they're scaring different people now but the tactic is the same.