The Democrap, er, I mean Democrat Party's history is steeped in racism...yet so many of my fellow Black Americans refuse to acknowledge this and often associate this type of horrendous behavior with White Southern Republicans.
Makes me sick to my stomach, and especially when our children are being lied to day in and day out by Public School teachers and Left wing College and University professors about how all Democrats marched with Dr. Martin Luther King 'side by side' during the Civil Rights Movement, when in reality there were more Republican senators than Democrats (including Mr. Global Warming's father, Al Gore, Sr.) who approved the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
I truly loathe the fact history has been so distorted by these evil people.
The media never mentions FDR’s atrocious civil rights record. Examples:
- FDR sponsored a “polio camp” for children deformed by polio, but he refused to admit black children.
- Despite several entreaties from civil rights advocates in the 30’s, FDR steadfastly refused to integrate the armed forces. And the civil rights groups at the time did not engage in even the slightest amount of victimology- they sought “equal protection under the law” and not much more.
- Internment of American citizens with Japanese heritage for no other reason than their heritage (that, and they looked sneaky, I guess /sarc).
- It’s likely that one of his SCOTUS appointees, Hugo Black, participated in lynchings when he was in the Klan.
Also, although Truman eventually integrated the armed forces, he refused to support the 1946 Civil Rights Act, which was written by Robert Taft and several other pro-liberty Republicans. The Act would have done what the 1964 Civil Rights Act eventually did, but 18 years earlier.
And don’t even get me started about Woodrow Wilson, the most extreme racist to ever serve as President. Wilson famously wrote an executive order that forbid blacks from the federal civil service, which was undone by Harding. In 1921, Harding advocated civil rights legislation very similar to the 1964 Act. He was bitterly opposed on this issue by the Democratic Party.
I have a few friends that are Black and they are Republicans and Conservatives. You are right, they are out there, the media just doesn’t want to hear from them.
At the 1948 Democratic National Convention, a group led by Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota proposed some controversial new civil rights planks of racial integration and the reversal of Jim Crow laws to be included in the party platform. Southern Democrats were dismayed. President Harry S. Truman was caught in the middle for his recent executive order to racially integrate the armed forces. As a compromise, he proposed the adoption of only those planks that had been in the 1944 platform. That was not enough for the liberals. Truman's own civil rights initiatives had made the civil rights debate unavoidable.
The planks were adopted and 35 southern Democrats walked out in protest. They formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, which became popularly known as the Dixiecrats. Their campaign slogan was “Segregation Forever!” Their platform also included “states’ rights” to freedom from governmental interference in an individual's or organization's prerogative to do business with whomever they wanted.
New York moderate Nelson Rockefeller's defeat in the presidential primary election marked the beginning of the end of moderates and liberals in the Republican Party.
Clearer political and ideological lines began to be drawn between the Democrat and Republican parties as moderates and liberals converted from Republican to Democrat. Conservatives in the Democratic Party began to move to the increasingly conservative Republican Party.
Meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, the Dixiecrats nominated South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate, and Mississippi governor Field J. Wright, as their vice-presidential nominee. The party platform represented the openly racist views of most white southerners of the time. It opposed abolition of the poll tax while endorsing segregation and the "racial integrity" of each race. In the November election, Thurmond carried the states of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. Although Thurmond did not win the election, he received well over a million popular votes and 39 electoral votes.
By 1952, southern Democrats had concluded that they could exercise more influence through the Democratic Party and therefore returned to the fold. They remained in the Democratic fold, restive, until the candidacy of Republican conservative Barry Goldwater liberated them in 1964 by refreshing some of the Dixiecrat ideologies and therefore accelerated the transition from a solid South for the Democrats to one for the Republicans. Strom Thurmond switched to the Republican Party that year and remained there until his death in December 2003.
Other presidential candidates, such as Republican Richard M. Nixon in 1968, have effectively used the Southern strategy of "states' rights" and racial inequality to garner votes from the racially conservative electorate in the southern states.