The GOP's core voters?

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Southern Man said:
LOL This bullshit again. Descendants of Democrats who fought Radical Republicans during the Civil War, fought against Republican Civil Rights Legislation for decades suddenly joined the Republican Party. Dream on.
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First with Nixon's southern strategy and then When Reagan ran. If you are too dense to see that then there is no help for you.
 
Socrtease said:
First with Nixon's southern strategy and then When Reagan ran. If you are too dense to see that then there is no help for you.
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Nixon exploited the Democrat's weakness, that doesn't mean that the GOP is racist. If you are too dense to see that then there is no help for you.
 
Southern Man said:
Nixon exploited the Democrat's weakness, that doesn't mean that the GOP is racist. If you are too dense to see that then there is no help for you.
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After the Democratic Party and LBJ made the turn to Civil Rights Dems like Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms became Republicans

JESSE HELMS

In 1950, Helms 'played a critical role as campaign publicity director for segregationist Willis Smith' in the U.S. Senate campaign against 'the most renowned Southern liberal Frank Porter Graham'.[30][31] Graham, who supported school desegregation, was labelled by Smith (a conservative Democratic lawyer and former president of the American Bar Association) as a 'dupe of communists' and a proponent of the 'mingling of the races', as a played out on fliers including the phrase 'Wake Up, White People' in the virtually all-white Democratic primaries.[31][32] After winning the election, Smith hired Helms to be his administrative assistant in Washington, D.C..

In 1952, Helms worked on the segregationist presidential campaign of Georgia Senator Richard Russell.[6] After Russell dropped out of the presidential race, Helms returned to working for Smith, who died the following year. Helms returned to Raleigh and, from 1953 to 1960, was executive director of the North Carolina Bankers Association. He set up a home on Caswell Street in the Hayes Barton Historic District, where he lived until he died.[6]

In 1957, Helms won his first election for a Raleigh City Council seat, and served two terms and earned a reputation as a conservative gadfly who 'fought against everything from putting a median strip on Downtown Boulevard to an urban renewal project'.[6] In 1960, Helms worked on the unsuccessful primary gubernatorial campaign of I. Beverly Lake, Sr., who ran on a platform of racial segregation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Helms#Entry_into_politics

STROM THURMOND

hurmond's political career began in the days of Jim Crow laws, when South Carolina strongly resisted any attempts at integration. Running as a Democrat, Thurmond was elected Governor of South Carolina in 1946, largely on the promise of making state government more transparent and accountable by weakening the power of a group of politicians from Barnwell, which Thurmond dubbed the Barnwell Ring led by House Speaker Solomon Blatt. Thurmond was considered a progressive for much of his term, in large part due to his influence in arresting all those responsible for the lynch mob murder of Willie Earl. Though none of the men was found guilty by the jury, Thurmond was congratulated by the NAACP and the ACLU for his efforts.

In 1948, after President Harry S. Truman desegregated the U.S. Army, proposed the creation of a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission, supported the elimination of Poll Taxes, and wished to draft federal anti-lynching laws, Thurmond became a candidate for President of the United States on the third party ticket of the States Rights Democratic Party, which split from the national Democrats over the proposed constitutional innovation involved in federal intervention in segregation. Thurmond carried four states and received 39 electoral votes. One 1948 speech, met with cheers by supporters, included the following:

I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.

Thurmond supported racial segregation with the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator, speaking for 24 hours and 18 minutes in an unsuccessful attempt to derail the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Cots were brought in from a nearby hotel for the legislators to sleep on while Thurmond rambled on about random things, including his grandmother's biscuit recipe. Other Southern Senators, who had agreed as part of a compromise not to filibuster this bill, were upset with Thurmond because they thought his defiance made them look bad to their constituents.[5]

As Thurmond was increasingly at odds with the Democratic Party, on September 16, 1964, he switched his party affiliation to Republican. He played an important role in South Carolina's support for Republican presidential candidates Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1968. South Carolina and other states of the Deep South had supported the Democrats in every national election from the end of Reconstruction to 1960. However, discontent with the Democrats' increasing support for civil rights resulted in John F. Kennedy barely winning the state in 1960. After Kennedy's assassination, Lyndon Johnson's strong support for the Civil Rights Act and integration angered white segregationists even more. Goldwater won South Carolina by a large margin in 1964.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond#Early_life_and_career

These two men are the EPITOME of the southern democrat turned Republican.
 
We saw the core voters of the Democrat party at his swearing in..

they booed and hissed a outgoing President of the United States..
 
Socrtease said:
After the Democratic Party and LBJ made the turn to Civil Rights Dems like Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms became Republicans

JESSE HELMS

In 1950, Helms 'played a critical role as campaign publicity director for segregationist Willis Smith' in the U.S. Senate campaign against 'the most renowned Southern liberal Frank Porter Graham'.[30][31] Graham, who supported school desegregation, was labelled by Smith (a conservative Democratic lawyer and former president of the American Bar Association) as a 'dupe of communists' and a proponent of the 'mingling of the races', as a played out on fliers including the phrase 'Wake Up, White People' in the virtually all-white Democratic primaries.[31][32] After winning the election, Smith hired Helms to be his administrative assistant in Washington, D.C..

In 1952, Helms worked on the segregationist presidential campaign of Georgia Senator Richard Russell.[6] After Russell dropped out of the presidential race, Helms returned to working for Smith, who died the following year. Helms returned to Raleigh and, from 1953 to 1960, was executive director of the North Carolina Bankers Association. He set up a home on Caswell Street in the Hayes Barton Historic District, where he lived until he died.[6]

In 1957, Helms won his first election for a Raleigh City Council seat, and served two terms and earned a reputation as a conservative gadfly who 'fought against everything from putting a median strip on Downtown Boulevard to an urban renewal project'.[6] In 1960, Helms worked on the unsuccessful primary gubernatorial campaign of I. Beverly Lake, Sr., who ran on a platform of racial segregation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Helms#Entry_into_politics

STROM THURMOND

hurmond's political career began in the days of Jim Crow laws, when South Carolina strongly resisted any attempts at integration. Running as a Democrat, Thurmond was elected Governor of South Carolina in 1946, largely on the promise of making state government more transparent and accountable by weakening the power of a group of politicians from Barnwell, which Thurmond dubbed the Barnwell Ring led by House Speaker Solomon Blatt. Thurmond was considered a progressive for much of his term, in large part due to his influence in arresting all those responsible for the lynch mob murder of Willie Earl. Though none of the men was found guilty by the jury, Thurmond was congratulated by the NAACP and the ACLU for his efforts.

In 1948, after President Harry S. Truman desegregated the U.S. Army, proposed the creation of a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission, supported the elimination of Poll Taxes, and wished to draft federal anti-lynching laws, Thurmond became a candidate for President of the United States on the third party ticket of the States Rights Democratic Party, which split from the national Democrats over the proposed constitutional innovation involved in federal intervention in segregation. Thurmond carried four states and received 39 electoral votes. One 1948 speech, met with cheers by supporters, included the following:

I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.

Thurmond supported racial segregation with the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator, speaking for 24 hours and 18 minutes in an unsuccessful attempt to derail the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Cots were brought in from a nearby hotel for the legislators to sleep on while Thurmond rambled on about random things, including his grandmother's biscuit recipe. Other Southern Senators, who had agreed as part of a compromise not to filibuster this bill, were upset with Thurmond because they thought his defiance made them look bad to their constituents.[5]

As Thurmond was increasingly at odds with the Democratic Party, on September 16, 1964, he switched his party affiliation to Republican. He played an important role in South Carolina's support for Republican presidential candidates Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1968. South Carolina and other states of the Deep South had supported the Democrats in every national election from the end of Reconstruction to 1960. However, discontent with the Democrats' increasing support for civil rights resulted in John F. Kennedy barely winning the state in 1960. After Kennedy's assassination, Lyndon Johnson's strong support for the Civil Rights Act and integration angered white segregationists even more. Goldwater won South Carolina by a large margin in 1964.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond#Early_life_and_career

These two men are the EPITOME of the southern democrat turned Republican.
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These two men realized their sins so left the Democrat Party, leaving the vast majority of Democrats to remain unchanged.
 
DNC said:
YouTube - Redneck lady disses Obama
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ROFL_MAO
 
Southern Man said:
These two men realized their sins so left the Democrat Party, leaving the vast majority of Democrats to remain unchanged.
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Realized their sins? Strom Thurmond had a black daughter that he kept hidden to his dying day. It was ok to fuck black women but not to acknowledge your black daughter. Both of those men to their dying day never apologized for their racist passed and when they switched parties they took racist dems with them to the Republican party. Yes there are still racist dems, Boston is a PRIME example of that, but to pretend that all the NON racist Dems joined the Repubs because they were tired of the racism in their party is just plain stupid. NO ONE in the party believes that.
 
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