AP: Ku Klux Klan Members Are 'Certainly Conservative'

NewsBusters.org ^ | 6/16/07 | Warner Todd Huston

[Altura Ct.]

Blah, Blah, Blah,
Smear, Smear, Smear

Other then trying to shut whites up is there a point to the AP article?

[lowbridge]

Sen. Byrd has set a new standard for taxpayer-funded narcissism by convincing the West Virginia Legislature to erect a statue of himself in the state Capitol. The statue's completion violates state law prohibiting statues of government officials until they have been dead for half a century.

Byrd's statue is currently housed in the Capitol Rotunda, as shown in the picture, and it is said if you stand under the statue the senator's hand points directly at your pockets.

http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=news_byrddroppings

[muawiyah]

AP tries to cover up racism in the ranks of its friends.

Doesn't work though. We all know what they are, particularly the writers who try to cover it up.

[Sherman Logan]

Does the AP not know that the Dixiecrats who led the fight against civil rights for blacks were NOT Republicans, nor conservatives, but merely racist in imputes?

NOT Republicans, true, of course.

Not conservatives, depends on what you are trying to conserve. In their case it was white dominance. They also tended to hold attitudes with regard to other issues (Communism/socialism, moral decay of society, taxation, etc.) that lined up very well with non-racist conservatives. They had essentially nothing in common with any other political groups in America.

There were no "conservative" principles at stake as far as the Dixiecrats were concerned in that time period.

Bull puckey, they were attempting to conserve white supremacy by Jim Crow methods.

I would contend that Jim Crow is, and always was, a very anti-conservative policy, if you view American history as a whole. From the standpoint of the south Jim Crow was an attempt to salvage as much as possible of the pre-war social system, a very conservative issue from their point of view.

It is simply not possible to intelligently discuss whether a particular policy is conservative or not unless you first define the principles you are attempting to conserve.

[Sherman Logan]

if you encounter a true racist, odds are he'll be an old-school yellow dog Democrat

True, and largely forgotten.

However, the yellow dog Democrats were an intensely conservative bunch.

I contend it was a perverted conservatism in its attitudes towards racial issues, but you certainly cannot argue they were liberal or radical in any way.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I live in Texas and I’ve never encountered a racist in my daily life. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist, but they’ve largely been discredited and (thankfully) for the most part keep to themselves.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Segregation was a DemocRat policy. Lester Maddox, George Wallace, “Sheets” Byrd— all DemocRats, never once a Republican. Al Gore Sr. was a leading opponent of the Civil Rights Act, too, something sonny-boy somehow never mentions.

From the days before the Civil War, Democrats have always been the party to aggravate and exploit racial differences. The main difference today is only a change in the skin color of many of the racial exploiters. On the other hand, the Republicans were always the true civil rights party as this page on Michael Zak's Grand Old Partisan website shows:

GOP Civil Rights Accomplishments

[pepsionice]

I grew up and left the south over 30 years ago. But amongst the 40-odd guys that I grew up with (friends, school buds, etc)...I’d say that 12 are KKK members and all 12 are staunch Democrats...which they will tell you to your face that they are Democrats. One of the 12 is a church deacon, since age 30, and one of the top union dudes in the county. The only absolute in this KKK membership deal is that 99 percent of the members are non-college graduates. Over the years of going back home and getting updated...you notice that most of the higher educated guys never got hooked up with the KKK...for whatever reason.

[LuxMaker]

He who controls the past, controls the future. :/

[Blue State Insurgent]

While Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King Jr. were all GOP, Slavery, Insurrection and Segregation were Donk, Donk and Donk.

[Mo1]

Segregation was a DemocRat policy. Lester Maddox, George Wallace, “Sheets” Byrd— all DemocRats, never once a Republican. Al Gore Sr. was a leading opponent of the Civil Rights Act, too, something sonny-boy somehow never mentions.

You forgot to mention James William Fulbright ... whom Bill Clinton's has stated was a mentor of his and who Clinton looked up to

[Blue State Insurgent]

Honky Donks!

[ReignOfError]

Let's begin from the premise that words have meanings.

Conservatism -- at least one of its definitions -- is marked by adherence to traditional norms and resistance to rapid, sweeping change. Forget the slogans, the party labels, and all the usual knee-jerk, rah-rah crap -- opposition to desegregation was the conservative position.

A that time and on that issue, the large majority of Southern Democrats were conservative. The Republicans and some, mostly Northern, Democrats held the progressive, reformist, -- dare I say liberal? -- position, which was also, I scarcely need say, the correct and moral position.

We're so in love with describing someone as "a conservative " or "a liberal," and loading those terms with all kinds of emotional baggage, that we risk losing sight of what the words mean. In the Middle East, our goals are liberal -- sweeping changes, wiping out old traditions particularly as regards women. In the eyes of Wahabbists, we're radical liberals. Don't be afraid of the word.

[6SJ7]

...or the Unibomber Ted Kaczynski (environmentalist)?

I seem to remember ol' Ted had a copy of 'Earth in the Balance' in his little cabin.

[Calpernia]

I still think he was deep throat.

[syriacus]

Liberal memories are very selective.

My liberal family members think the scandalous Wilbur Mills was a Republican.