Everyone knows the parties swapped sides on the race debate in the mid-1960s. Well, all the intelligent, educated and sane Americans.
No, but thanks for the derail and off-the-wall question. I've defended our nation for over 21 years including preparing to nuke our enemies....specifically the enemy this guy is now sucking up to while he denigrates our military and intelligence services:
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Do you always support draft-dodging cowards, liars and serial adulterers?
This sums it up
The parties did switch their geographic bases. That part is true. The part of the “party switch” where the two switched platforms and the Republicans became racists is false.
The South was solidly Democrat for decades, mainly because of resentment over the Republicans stemming from the Civil War and reconstruction. But the South was also fairly conservative. Both parties had liberal and conservative wings into the 1970s.
The parties became aligned as conservative/liberal after Goldwater’s defeat in 1964 and McGovern’s in 1972. The alignment didn’t really complete until well into the 80s. Reagan spent a good part of his presidency convincing members of the House to change from Democrat to Republican.
At the same time, the Republicans internalized the teaching of Martin Luther King to judge people as individuals while the Democrats insisted on racial preferences and insisted that the only reason for not judging people by race is racism.
Some other factors figure into this. We are not talking about the same people. Northern states have been losing population and Southern states have been gaining for decades. Conservatives have left the “rust belt” states for places like Texas. Air conditioning was a factor in this.
Similarly, blacks are no longer concentrated in the South. They have voted Democrat since the days of FDR and are a large voting block in every major city. That has also contributed to the geographic switch.
The idea of the switch comes from Democrats who are trying to disown their history. They were the party of the KKK and Jim Crow. They want to escape that by claiming that Democrats are now Republicans.
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