Steele says White Republicans are scared of black folkFollow

I know. I was just tweaking him a bit for it... ;)


Of course, if I had made a similar mistake, we'd be subjected to a page and a half of Joph insisting that I'm "backpedaling" now that the facts don't match what I originally stated, and no matter how minor and irrelevant the error was, he'll insist that it's proof that my entire position on the issue at hand is wrong.


I'll settle for a tiny tweak. Fair?

You understand that words in quotes do not precicely mean what they usually mean, right?

Let me help you, you confused little boy.

In the 1930s, after the New Deal under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a realignment occurred. Much of the Democratic Party shifted towards economic intervention and support for civil rights and liberties. After the crises of the Great Depression, World War II, and the beginning of the Cold War, Southern Democrats began to drift from the mainstream of the party. The formation of the Dixiecrat movement heralded an end to the New Deal coalition. For more than a century, white Southerners had overwhelmingly been Democrats, but in 1948 many bolted from the party, angered by Harry Truman's efforts to abolish or ameliorate the effects of racial segregation, and supported Strom Thurmond's third-party candidacy for president.

In 1968, Alabama's Democratic former governor George C. Wallace ran for President on the American Independent Party ticket, and swept the electoral votes of the Deep South. The American Independent Party failed to keep its foothold in the South. Its 1972 candidate was John G. Schmitz, a John Bircher from California, whose strongest showing in the 1972 election was 10% in Idaho, but who did poorly in the South. Subsequent southern Dixiecrats running on the American Independent Party ticket included Lester Maddox and John Rarick, but these campaigns did not succeed either.





Is continuing to suppress an entire race a "states' rights" issue?

You're smarter than this.




but in 1948 many bolted from the party, angered by Harry Truman's efforts to abolish or ameliorate the effects of racial segregation, and supported Strom Thurmond's third-party candidacy for president.


I'll add that most Republicans around here are Republicans primarily because they are the anti-abortion party.



No shit. Many former Democrats who were bigoted @#%^s left the party to become Republicans because the Democrats were no longer the party of bigoted @#%^s. Not hard to figure out at all!!!


EDIT: Left out a word

Edited, Nov 13th 2009 11:49pm by Bijou

I'll summarize the point it looks like Bijou is trying to make, and not doing a good job:

There's a reason why he had "Dixiecrats" in quotes originally - he's referring not just to the original Dixiecrats, but also to the successor parties of the same or substantially similar platform, such as the AIP.

Whether or not the rest of it is relevant to much of anything, or is just general Republi-bashing, I'm not going to bother analyzing because you make me embarrassed to have a substantial number of conservative beliefs.