Posted on 12/27/2014 9:15:43 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s the commie northwest and west that’s the problem.
“Should we celebrate the supposed conservative “New South” when the leadership INCLUDES Lindsey Graham, Lamar Alexander,”
I guess with those standards, you can NEVER be happy. Yes, not all of the leaders will be perfect...but don’t think, for a moment, that some Third Party that people salivate over will do any better...after all, we see that much of the Tea Party leadership has now even sold out.
“It’s the commie northwest and west that’s the problem.”
You forgot the Northeast and all those obnoxious, irritating, smirky Progressives who have appointed themselves as brilliant, intellectual geniuses, presuming to be the saviors of mankind; absolutely disgusting.
IMHO
No, Revels held the other Senate seat from MS. Black Republican Blanche K. Bruce did win the seat Davis held, however.
Apparently, it is only Southerners who realized this was the last chance to save the country and our Constitution. I dont hear you bashing anyone else.
Strong point in your favor. I am afraid with age, one often does not acquire wisdom, but a state of being a curmudgeon.
Sure as heck do not see a Ted Cruz rising from the North.
Bump!
Your points are valid and well taken.
“This region is now a solid conservative south for the first time since Democrats seized control just after the end of the Civil War. “
Well the part about “conservative” is a bunch of B.S. THere are more RINOs in the South/South East than Carter has little pills
Florida is the wild card. With its continual influx of Northern liberasl to south Florida its membership in the South is tentative and subject to change with every election. If Florida tips left the nation lurches left.
Florida is the wild card. With its continual influx of Northern liberasl to south Florida its membership in the South is tentative and subject to change with every election. If Florida tips left the nation lurches left. The Left has the electoral votes and may win without Florida. The Conservatives cannot win without Florida.
“It’s the commie northwest and west that’s the problem.”
Just be lucky that’s the “problem”. You should be happy that these libtard bastards aren’t moving to the South to turn it blue. I work and live in a hostile industry contrary to my beliefs and I do fine.
Those folks are voting Republican more than you think in Texas. Exhibit A: Wendy Davis. I live in a probably 80%+ neighborhood and NEVER have any problems. My apartment building in Mississippi was about 80% of a certain other ethnic group. Nothing but problems.
How quickly do you see those states becoming democrat, Texas for instance?
So... As the Savage Beast has said, on another thread:
All you Freepers have a patriotic duty to have as many children as possible.
Put down those computers and get back in the bedroom. Your country needs you!
Two sons of the south, President Johnson, and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. joined to shape a new dynamic in granting freedom and justice with the passage in 1964 of the Civil Rights Act and in 1965 of the Voting Rights Act.
LBJ smelled a political opportunity: nothing more. He was simply cementing a voting block for the Democrats. Anyone that knew LBJ, also knew he was the worst kind of racist: the one that smiles to your face, but stabs you in the back after you give him what he wants.
They distanced themselves from previous backers like Vice President Nixon who unlike then Senator John Kennedy, supported the civil rights struggles of the 50’s. In fact it was Nixon who invited Rev. King in 1957 to the nation’s capitol to a civil rights summit conference.
The writer could have done just a bit more research to find out what really happened.
MLK was arrested on a bogus charge during the 1960 campaign. Despite the long previous friendship between Nixon and MLK, Nixon (now Vice-President) chose to stay out of it, believing it would be "grandstanding". Compare that to Obama's propensity to insert himself into every controversy in the past 6 years.
Of course, liberals believe Nixon's choice was a calculated effort to win white votes in the South, at the expense of black votes. It fits their narrative of the non-existent "Southern Strategy".
In contrast, JFK and RFK helped to get King released. I'll leave it to the reader to decide if they did so for political reasons, or if they genuinely supported King.
Nixon still won 32% of the black vote, but that was down from Eisenhower's 40%. Four years later, LBJ had signed the Civil Rights Act and campaigned for the "Great Society" and won 94% of the black vote, setting a pattern that still continues.
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