8th grader suspended and arrested for wearing an NRA t-shirt??

[Jarod]

and you think they were voting for who, prior to that......

I don't believe social issues were very significant in the political arena prior to that. The Southern conservatives identified with the Democratic party strongly from the Civil War until the late 1960's. but there was not a Republican party prior to that. They left the Democratic party (with regards to national politics) when Johnson used the National Guard to integrate the University of Alabama. They had the Dixiecrats for a while but that was absorbed by the Republican party. Gov. Wallace was a strong social conservative and very long term Democratic Gov. of Alabama.

Yes the Social Conservatives of the south supported the Democrats until Johnson alienated them and Nixon pandered to them.

 

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I don't believe social issues were very significant in the political arena prior to that. The Southern conservatives identified with the Democratic party strongly from the Civil War until the late 1960's. but there was not a Republican party prior to that. They left the Democratic party (with regards to national politics) when Johnson used the National Guard to integrate the University of Alabama. They had the Dixiecrats for a while but that was absorbed by the Republican party. Gov. Wallace was a strong social conservative and very long term Democratic Gov. of Alabama.

Yes the Social Conservatives of the south supported the Democrats until Johnson alienated them and Nixon pandered to them.

what do you mean by 'there was not a Republican party prior to that'???

 

[Jarod]

what do you mean by 'there was not a Republican party prior to that'???

Prior to the mid 1850's there was no Republican party, at least not on a national scale.

 

[Jarod]

It was basically a Northern and Western Party for its first 100 years, then in the 1960's it flipped and became mostly a Southern and Western party.

 

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Prior to the mid 1850's there was no Republican party, at least not on a national scale.

But you referred to the period from the Civil War - 1960's... then said there was no Republican party prior to that.

 

[Jarod]

Right, there was no Republican party prior to that period....

 

[USFREEDOM911]

In a free country the powerful are free to do anything they like.

Then, according to you, China is a free country; because look at what they're doing in Tibet.

 

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You guys are slowing down! Come on, you're almost at 600 posts about nothing! I know you can do it. I think of this as the Seinfeld thread.

 

[I'm Watermark]

Then, according to you, China is a free country; because look at what they're doing in Tibet.

China is a special case... Imagine a developing version of the US with a long term budget surplus, no social safety net, and a government/PS that exert a massive amount of control over the workforce.

It's not a free country, primarily for economic reasons.

 

[Airstrip One]

Federalist Party --> National Republican Party --> Whig Party --> Republican Party

 

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You guys are slowing down! Come on, you're almost at 600 posts about nothing! I know you can do it. I think of this as the Seinfeld thread.

That would make you Newman

 

[USFREEDOM911]

China is a special case... Imagine a developing version of the US with a long term budget surplus, no social safety net, and a government/PS that exert a massive amount of control over the workforce.

It's not a free country, primarily for economic reasons.

OH-SO China is a special case!!
By the way, they are not a developing nation akin to the US; plus add in that China has been around as a Nation, longer then the US.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

I don't believe social issues were very significant in the political arena prior to that.

sorry, but I think you will find social conservatives have always been faithful voters.....far more so than liberals who probably would have to be considered non-existent prior to the Vietnam War protests and didn't win an election until Clinton.....

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Right, there was no Republican party prior to that period....

lol, a lot of states weren't even states prior to THAT period.....

 

[PostmodernProphet]

You guys are slowing down! Come on, you're almost at 600 posts about nothing! I know you can do it. I think of this as the Seinfeld thread.

actually, most of the posts that are about nothing are yours.....

 

[Phantasmal]

That would make you Newman

That would make you, George.

 

[Jarod]

lol, a lot of states weren't even states prior to THAT period.....

Agreed, so?

 

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That would make you, George.

Kramer would probably be a better characterization...

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Agreed, so?

so the fact that there weren't Republicans in the 1850s is hardly relevant......I believe the issue was whether social conservatives were around before the 1970s......

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Kramer would probably be a better characterization...

this one for Rana, definitely....