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To: tejek who wrote (578371)	7/28/2010 2:08:42 PM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1571405

If you think about it just a little, even the current (R) excuse for why minorities don't like them more is racist and panders to the racists in the (R) party. They claim the (D) minorities are dupes, conned by the evil (D)'s, too STUPID to see through the lies and deception! That's not going to win them any minority votes, but it IS a big kiss for the racists in the (R) party, a big, whispering, "we're with YOU"..

To: tejek who wrote (578371)	7/28/2010 2:21:37 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1571405

Parties don't love or hate anybody. Individuals do. Corrupt partisan pundits, like you, seem to enjoy exacerbating fears to the point where as much hatred as possible is manifest. Exploiting human frailties for political gain is disgusting. There is a point where such conduct can backfire. It backfires when people of conscience begin to complain about being 'owned' or 'obligated' by socialist progressive politics.

To: tejek who wrote (578371)	7/28/2010 2:47:08 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571405

Robert Byrd (D)

To: tejek who wrote (578371)	7/29/2010 7:52:32 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571405

Chris is a liar. The Myth of the Racist Republicans ...... research consistently shows that identification with the GOP is stronger among the South's younger rather than older white voters, and that each cohort has also became more Republican with time. ...... Timing may provide the greatest gap between the myth and the actual unfolding of events. Only in the 1980s did more white Southerners self-identify as Republicans than as Democrats, and only in the mid-1990s did Republicans win most Southern House seats and become competitive in most state legislatures. So if the GOP's strength in the South only recently reached its zenith, and if its appeal were primarily racial in nature, then the white Southern electorate (or at least most of it) would have to be as racist as ever. But surely one of the most important events in Southern political history is the long-term decline of racism among whites. The fact that these (and many other) books suggest otherwise shows that the myth is ultimately based on a demonization not of the GOP but of Southerners, who are indeed assumed to have Confederate flags in their hearts if not on their pickups. This view lends The Rise of Southern Republicans a schizophrenic nature: it charts numerous changes in the South, but its organizing categories are predicated on the unsustainable assumption that racial views remain intact. What's more, the trend away from confident beliefs in white supremacy may have begun earlier than we often think. David Chappell, a historian of religion, argues that during the height of the civil rights struggle, segregationists were denied the crucial prop of religious legitimacy. Large numbers of pastors of diverse denominations concluded that there was no Biblical foundation for either segregation or white superiority. Although many pastors remained segregationist anyway, the official shift was startling: "Before the Supreme Court's [Brown v. Board] decision of 1954, the southern Presbyterians. . . and, shortly after the decision, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) overwhelmingly passed resolutions supporting desegregation and calling on all to comply with it peacefully. . . . By 1958 all SBC seminaries accepted black applicants." With considerable understatement, Chappell notes that "people—even historians—are surprised to hear this." Billy Graham, the most prominent Southern preacher, was openly integrationist. The point of all this is not to deny that Richard Nixon may have invited some nasty fellows into his political bed. The point is that the GOP finally became the region's dominant party in the least racist phase of the South's entire history, and it got that way by attracting most of its votes from the region's growing and confident communities—not its declining and fearful ones. The myth's shrillest proponents are as reluctant to admit this as they are to concede that most Republicans genuinely believe that a color-blind society lies down the road of individual choice and dynamic change, not down the road of state regulation and unequal treatment before the law. The truly tenacious prejudices here are the mythmakers'. Message 26680692 The former segregationists of the south mainly stayed in the Democratic party. Only two former segregationists eventually became Republicans - Helms and Thurmond. Jimmy Carter, who got his start as a segregationist on the Plains school board, stayed a Democrat. So did Al Gore's dad, and Al, himself. Ditto Clinton's mentor, J William Fulbright. And of course, Robert KKK Byrd. I could go on and on with examples.