Harry Reid told BYU students Oct. 9, 2007: “I am a Democrat because I am a Mormon, not in spite of it,” he said.
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Yes well there was that original platform of the newly formed Republican Party...
The Twin Pillars of Barbarism...Polygamy and Slavery...
Both were ideals of the mormons in the 1850s...and still are..
1. The mormons claim that polygamy is necessary for white and delightsome mormon males to be worthy to enter the mormon afterlife...females of all colors and religions need not apply..
2. Mormons believe that blacks are cursed and deserved to be enslaved...
Thus the 150 year hated of Republicans...
TN, to be fair & in defense of conservative Mormons -- many of whom are my family members/heritage, while there was animosity toward Republicans during the 1860s to 1890ish period, mainly because it was Congressional Republicans which pushed for anti-polygamy initiatives (the Southern Democrats joined with the Mormons in opposing those initiatives), states like Utah went Republican around the time of Teddy Roosevelt, lost it briefly around 1914, regained power in the 1920s, lost it to Democrats during the depression years, and started regaining it in the 1940s...and were solidly Republican post WWII.
Utah even briefly went Republican just pre-statehood (1896) before an avalanche of Democrats were swept in during the 1896 elections. [Ya gotta know though that many in the state were told to switch allegiances (starting in 1893) by church leaders because they at the time they were receiving statehood wanted to appear more "balanced" to Republican Congressional leaders].
Anyway, I would say that about 40 years into that 150-year span you were referencing things started to change, although as things do in Utah, it waffled back & forth then for the next 50 years.
Your post, of course is factual, but you left out a fact that is more damming to Reid.... Reid converted to Mormonism in the early 60’s. So he willing join a religion that had a poor history of racism and at the time, did not allow black into the priesthood. To this day Mormonism holds that black are pre existent cursed.
No!
HArry can't be THAT old; can he?
He just LOOKS it!