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To: Bilow who wrote (750236)	10/29/2013 6:22:10 PM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Recommended By J_F_Shepard Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575421

To pretend that Republicans didn't immediately welcome all the southern racists into their party with open arms, legislative efforts and lots of dog whistles when then (D)'s decided to drop racism in the 1960's is disingenuous. It's no accident of history that the former (D) "solid south" is now the (R) solid south, thanks to adopting all the racists there. Lincoln would be horrified. I'd simply point you to Lee Atwater, (R) political strategist: "You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”" Entire 42 minute interview HERE: thenation.com

To: Bilow who wrote (750236)	10/30/2013 12:51:08 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1575421

You need a history lesson, or you are purposely engaging in revisionist history. don't look at parties look at whether the voters in congress were liberals or conservatives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 The Republicans before 1900 were northern liberals and liberal abolitionists. The Democrats were southern slave owners or conservatives. Lincoln was a northern liberal. It was Northern Republican liberals who voted to stop slavery! Not conservatives. In the early 1900s the parties changed. Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson changed that and since then the Republican party has been the conservative party and Democratic party the liberal party. Except for dixiecrats which were conservative and aligned with dems of the north through labor. If you look at the votes it was the northern liberals who voted to free the slaves; and it was the liberals pubs and dems that voted to end segregation. In both cases it was conservatives that voted to keep slavery and keep segregation. Few to no liberals voted for either slavery or segregation. Liberals know better. You should try using google it is all there. Look at who voted,