The Dixiecrat Platform

The Smoking Gun ^ | August 14, 1948 | The States Rights Democratic Party

[GraniteStateConservative]

Just so people here understand that Thurmond's run for the White House had nothing to do with lowering taxes or reducing government spending.

[Dat]

For crying out loud, he didn't even use the word "segregation". If you ask me the P.C. Jihad around here is more damaging to the Republican party than Trent Lott's remarks.

[epow]

Really, it is past time for OUR party, the true Republican Party, the Grand Old Party of Abraham Lincoln, to give up its latter day Confederate wing.

Oh I see, then you want to renounce and invalidate all those Bush electoral votes that came from southern and border states in 2000, right? After all, they were tainted by having been cast by the vile "Confederate wing" of your otherwise pure and virtuous GOP. Moreover, I'm SURE that any loss incurred by cutting us out of your party will be more than compensated for by the flood of minority voters who will undoubtedly flock to the new and improved GOP once we're outta here. Yessir, you can take those minority votes to the bank for sure.

Sometime when you have nothing better to do, take a look at the 2000 red/blue election map. The despised "Confederate wing" of the party holds forth in that big RED area from just south of the Ohio river down to the Mexican border and the FL straits. Paint just one of those states blue and you would have Algore as your president right now. Paint a couple more blue and you would have a Democratic Senate and House.

But, if you virtuous and colorblind northerners don't want us po white trash to sully your precious party of Lincoln and Harding with our tainted votes, well, OK, I guess. But you do realize don't you, that your purified GOP will then become a minority party for the forseeable future? And that Daschele will be Senate majority leader in perpetuity? But I suppose it will be worth all that for you just to feel oh so rightous and high-minded, will it not?

Maybe you're too young to remember those good old days of the Democratic "solid south". You know, those days when the Democrats held the White House, and all but one congress, for 20 years straight? And when, but for a very popular wartime general named Ike, they would have held the White House for another 16 years. Well, believe it or not, if you do decide to throw us out of your party you can relive those glorious years of defeat and despair over and over again just as if you had a magic time machine. How great would that be?

[BillyBoy]

>> My friend if you lose the "confederate wing" then kiss any republican election goodbye. <<

Tell that to Calvin Coolidge. Conservatives need not pander to you to be consevative and win.

[Texasforever]

Conservatives need not pander to you to be consevative and win.

What do you mean "you". Sorry buddy but if the GOP loses the south it is democrats forever. I don't think you really want to turn this into a north south issue because that will be political suicide.

[nathanbedford]

No South, no republican victory.

So long as the left can race bate without paying a price, they will be able to contain or at least divert the growing cnservative majority. So long as they can race bait they can bamboozle the hispanic vote where all the coming elections will be won or lost.

We have got to keep the South and we have got to find a way to make 'em pay for this race baiting. Let's stop eating our own and think about how to make them pay or the left will do this until there is no South, no North, no East or West for conservatives to hide in.

[Chi-townChief]

"Back in 1980 he was claiming we'd be better off if the Dixiecrats had won in '48."

We may well have been better off if the Dixiecrats (or anyone else, for that matter) won in '48; Truman's admin was a disaster - so much that if he had run again in '52 he would have had his ass kicked all the way back to Missouri (to reiterate an earlier point.)

[Bluntpoint]

We need to clean our own house first.

If my kid steals, I will deal with that first. I don't want to hear how the kid down the block got caught stealing also.

Jesus did not say: "Go and sin until your neighbor sins no more."

[Bella_Bru]

Explain to me how the government having the right to dictate whom you may marry (based solely on race) is a good and coservative thing?

[Roscoe]

"Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity." --Robert Heinlein

[nathanbedford]

Oh stop! Lott did not steal or break any of the other commandments (including love thy neighbor) he voiced a political opinion which is not entirely invalid (although some is invalid.)

States rights is an intellectually defensible position and so is the right to freedom of association. This country has made an accomodation of race at the expense of the constitution. This was a good thing but it was an intellectually dishonest thing. (Don't forget this last when you flame)

Don't make me pretend to a intellectual dishonesty to balm your conscience.

[kcvl]

You can read a person's mind? You are truly amazing...

[kcvl]

Like Sen. "Sheets" Byrd?

[kcvl]

And say hello to President Hillary Clinton! How proud they would all be then. Yes, Trent Lott, the evil racist. /sarcasm

We could learn what a ******* Jew ******* was at the same time per "OUR" President Hillary Clinton. Don't believe that more than that has rolled out of her mouth including some racist remarks about blacks. You'll never hear it from the press.

[sneakypete]

Actually, I am in favor of mandatory INTER-RACIAL marriage.

Mandatory? What ever happened to the right of free association?

[Ken in Eastman]

I really hate to see this. I'm not a huge Trent Lott fan and have become less of one since he has "grown" in office. I would like to see him replaced with a more conservative Republican as Majority Leader, but not at this time.

To replace Trent Lott now is to yield to the worst elements of our society, those who profit from divisive politics and personal attacks. To replace Trent Lott is not a blow to racism, it is an encouragement to those who would diminish the need for ending racism with their continual use of the term to accomplish their personal political goals. If we give in on this we encourage them to continue their pursuit.

Trent Lott's words were unfortunate. It is a small step from saying that Strom Thrmond should have won the 1948 Presidential election to endorsing segregation, but these two things are not the same thing. Thurmond's platform could never have passed muster or had enough political support to move out of committee. That's the political reality and for those stating Lott understood what he was saying, perhaps he also understood this.

I am a Southerner by the grace of God. I am a Republican by intellect and thoughtful decision. For years, this made me a minority within a minority.

To be a white Republican is, to many, to be a racist. To be a white conservative Republican is, to even more, to be a racist. As a party, we fight it nationwide constantly.

For non-Southerners, this would give you only the smallest taste of what it is like to be a white male Southern conservative Republican. The assumptions of others can be outrageous. Let us not make those assumptions here.

The War is over, even though its remanants live on. Let us focus, instead, on a future and on issues where we can agree. The future of the Republican Party should be a bright, shining gateway to freedom and prosperity.

[sneakypete]

I know for a fact, because it has happend to me several time that some of the posters on this board feel the State has the duty to kill my wife and I because we enjoy oral sex.

Yeah,but let's be fair here. They don't care if it's the state that kills you,or the feral gooberment that kills you. The main thing is that want you to die. They would most likely prefer to kill you themselves,but are willing to allow government to do it for them now that this power has been taken away from the church.

[sneakypete]

Damn, what happend to the GOP?

Jorge "Ah LUV illegal aliens!" Bush and his merry band of Corporate Communists.

[kcvl]

You are a racist.

Now, prove that you're not.

That's exactly what they are doing to Trent Lott(did to Judge Pickering, et al). It works EVERY TIME they use it.

[Bluntpoint]

The dixiecrat platform would have made this country a better place to live. There. That would make me a racist. Read their platform.

[Ken in Eastman]

The dixiecrat platform would have made this country a better place to live. There. That would make me a racist. Read their platform.

Now, try reading the post you replied to.