"Red states" that supported President Bush also supported slavery

News Target ^ | November 15, 2004

[js1138]

Of course, when these states supported slavery and Jim Crow, they were run by democrats.

[stop_fascism]

Exactly, Kerry states have always been opposed to liberty and the rights of man. That explains everything.

[Tribune7]

I apologize to the good people of Kansas. (And of course, cough cough, the Dems were the pro-slavery party while the Pubs supported freedom.)

[Moose4]

When the Russians ran it, maybe.

}:-)4

[Let's Roll]

It would have been smart of the libs not to go there but if they were smart, they wouldn't be libs.
They are overlooking that all slaveowners were dumbocrats.

And Lincoln, as the libs habitually ignore, was a Republican.

[sheik yerbouty]

One of the original Boyz in De Hoods...

[Zionist Conspirator]

I believe I am correct when I say that there were a great many of the "blue" states that voted for a Democratic President who (1) tried to pack the Supreme Court to get his way, and (2) threw lots of American citizens (who happened to be of Japanese descent) into concentration camps.

How many people remember that in 1936 FDR carried every state except Maine and Vermont? How many people remember that during twelve years of FDR's Presidency there was not a single solitary legal abortion of "gay marriage?"

Why do people who idolize FDR (1933-1945) act as if "turning back the clock" to 1972 (before Roe v. Wade) is absolutely unthinkable?

[robertpaulsen]

"Red states" that supported President Bush also supported slavery

Slavery was on the 2004 ballot? I missed it.

[artifax]

"If I thought this war was to abolish slavery, I would resign my commission and offer my sword to the other side".
U.S. Grant

[Rutles4Ever]

You're killin' me. Maybe we should start handicapping the 2012 re-election field instead of 2008.

[Muleteam1]

Your assertion is beyond absurd. The Democrats wanted to destroy the Union in the 1860s and the only thing that has changed is that those self-destructive forces now live in the urban areas where instead of slave help they can get government help.

Only a fool would believe your absurd observation but then the Democratic Party well knows a plastic bait catches a lot of foolish fish.

Multeam1

[dandelion]

Many Blue states that supported Kerry also supported Slavery - when the Declaration of Independence was signed.

[Zionist Conspirator]

"The Republican Party is the ship. All else is sea." --Frederick Douglass

[eagle11]

These bozos are so used to dividing people and pandering to each group, they just can't help themselves. Free states included OH, IN, KY, KS, IA, NV, UT. Nice try, though!

[Irene Adler]

Iowa? Nebraska? North and South Dakota?

[Auntie Dem]

The Southern states these dimbulbs refer to were run by democrats then. They're still "democrats" today, but they vote republican.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Several decades later, Massachusetts and Maine (if I remember correctly) went so far as to refuse to send their state militias to aid the U.S. in the War of 1812.

Well, Maine was part of Massachusetts back then (it wasn't detached and admitted as a separate state until 1820 as part of the Missouri Compromise), but the New England Federalists changed their position on "states' rights" when Jefferson became President.

BTW, it was the repeal of the Missouri Compromise by the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 that led to the formation of the Republican Party, of which I and my ancestors have been proud affiliates since the Civil War.

[Sloth]

It just goes to show -- black folks love W!

[Zionist Conspirator]

The thing is if track the change in the south from Democrat to Republican this is recent staring around 1980 oddly this is also the time frame of the start of the new south ... from the slavery of the 1860 to the segregation of 1960 the south was all Democrat and the solid Democrat South the Democrat political strategic for a hundred years...the lib are hypocrites that had no problem using Souther votes to put them in power and when the south changed with the end of segregation and the start of the Republican south the lib try to use the Old (Dem controlled)south history to smear the New (Rep) south

100% accurate!!!

[nosofar]

Slavery was legal in Massachusetts up to 1783 it looks like.

http://www.slavenorth.com/massemancip.htm