Myth of the Big flip or Southern strategy---Help.

Levin ^ | 1/5/2018 | Me

[mikelets456]

I typed this up to start---tell me what you think: The myth of the big flip. The Republican party started as to abolish slavery that the Democrat party had no desire to abolish. Hence entered Abraham Lincoln running on the same Republican platform as Republicans run on today . The Democrats continued on the platform of slavery. SCOTUS had a chance to overturn slavery in 1857 (Dred Scott) but a vote of 7-2 with 7 Democrats denying freedom and the two Republicans dissenting. …they chose that black men would not be free. Fast forward to Woodrow Wilson, a known racist and a Democrat and arguably the leader of radical progressivism: #1---Progressive hero Woodrow Wilson may be glorified as a “leader of the Progressive Movement” on the federal government website; but this disturbed President was not only racist, he almost single-handedly brought about the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in America. As reported at Liberty Unyielding: • The Ku Klux Klan persecuted black Americans and their white Republican advocates, along with Catholics and Jewish people. The Ku Klux Klan enjoyed a “resurgence” in 1915, thanks mainly to the film, “The Birth of a Nation,” which was based on Thomas Dixon’s “The Clansman.” Thomas Dixon was a “longtime political supporter, friend and former classmate of [Woodrow] Wilson’s at Johns Hopkins University.” Woodrow Wilson screened “The Birth of a Nation” in the White House. In fact, it was the very first film to ever be shown at the White House. Woodrow Wilson himself was quoted in the film from his own book, A History of the American People. In his book, Wilson wrote: “The white men of the South were aroused by the mere instinct of self-preservation to rid themselves, by fair means or foul, of the intolerable burden of governments sustained by the votes of ignorant negroes and conducted in the interest of adventurers.” #1A---Enter Calvin Coolidge, a friend of the Black, Jewish, Catholic and all those being attacked by the KKK. Coolidge denounced the KKK in 1924 and [even] did not attend their parades. A Republican, Libertarian….which leads us next to FDR. #2---FDR spoke at the 1924 Democrat National Convention, also known as the “Klanbake” for the “heavy representation of Ku Klux Klan-friendly delegates,” as reported at the Wall Street Journal. According to Digital History, after the Klanbake, “some 20,000 Klan supporters wearing white hoods and robes held a picnic in New Jersey…” Roosevelt appointed “confidant” James Byrnes to the Supreme Court, who was so powerful that he was known as the “assistant president on the home front” and who “believed in racial segregation…and worked to defeat anti-lynching bills introduced in Congress.” Despite the fact that Byrnes was not elected by the people, FDR “assigned Byrnes more powers than ever held by a public official.” Even worse, FDR appointed prominent Ku Klux Klan member Hugo Black to the Supreme Court. Black’s involvement in the KKK was confirmed by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalist Ray Sprigle, a journalist who won a “Pulitzer Prize for Reporting” for his exposé. #3---LBJ, Several particularly egregious and racist quotes have been attributed to LBJ. As observed at the Huffington Post, LBJ said in 1948 that President Truman’s civil rights proposal… …is a farce and a sham…I have voted against the so-called poll tax repeal bill … I have voted against the so-called anti-lynching bill. So why was LBJ for Republican-passed civil rights legislation in 1964 (a watered-down version of the 1957 civil rights legislation under Eisenhower), but against it in 1948? Just like President Obama, LBJ was evidently not concerned about the plight of black Americans but rather about thecontinuation of a progressive agenda. LBJ pushed ahead with his “great society” program “which gave rise to Medicaid, Head Start and a broad range of other federal anti-poverty programs,” declaring that “negroes” are “getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness….” and claimed further that his efforts would secure the vote of the “nig*ers” for “200 years.” As noted in 2013 at the Washington Post: • “Nearly 50 years after the release of the U.S. Department of Labor report ‘The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,’ which was highly controversial and widely criticized at the time, the new Urban Institute study found that the alarming statistics in the report back then ‘have only grown worse, not only for blacks, but for whites and Hispanics as well.’” Importantly, the man who most influenced the Great Society initiative was the founder of the radical group “Democratic Socialists of America,” Communist Michael Harrington #5---Bill Clinton, When Bill Clinton selected global warming fear monger Al Gore as his Vice President, it clearly did not bother him that Gore’s dad walked “arm-in-arm with other segregationist Democrats to kill the Civil Rights act of 1964.” It further did not occur to Bill Clinton to distance himself from “notorious segregationist,” racist, pro-communist, and anti-Semitic “mentor” former Arkansas Sen. J. William Fulbright, who “was one of ninety-nine congressional Democrats to sign the Southern Manifesto, which declared that the Southern states had a right to keep their populations segregated by race.” As an aside, the famous Fulbright fellowship has been recently renamed to the “J. William Fulbright – Hillary Rodham Clinton Fellowship.” The Southern Manifesto, as an aside, “was signed by 101 members of the U.S. Congress, including 19 senators and 82 members of the House of Representatives. Ninety-nine of them were Democrats.” As reported at National Review, Bill Clinton was among “three state officials the NAACP sued in 1989 under the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965″ for suppressing the black vote. Quoting the Arkansas Gazette from December 6, 1989, the article continues: “Plaintiffs offered plenty of proof of monolithic voting along racial lines, intimidation of black voters and candidates and other official acts that made voting harder for blacks…the evidence at the trial was indeed overwhelming that the Voting Rights Act had been violated…” The article continues: During his 12-year tenure, Governor Clinton never approved a state civil-rights law. However, he did issue birthday proclamations honoring Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. He also signed Act 116 in 1987. That statute reconfirmed that the star directly above the word “Arkansas” in the state flag “is to commemorate the Confederate States of America.” Arkansas also observed Confederate Flag Day every year Clinton served… The parties did not flip, the Democrats are the same Democrats of slavery simply using LBJ’s “Great society” tactics to gain votes. There’s clearly evidence that the Democrat party is the same party however using classic “sympathy votes” for the betterment of society via “spread the wealth” to lure voters via propaganda of schools, colleges and media. The Democrat party is the party of slavery, Jim Crow laws, Margaret Sanger and eugenics, internment camps under FDR and LBJ’s plan to get votes from minorities as a clear racist.

[Vendome]

Yeah but, what do you really mean? /S

[edzo4]

The Prager video mentioned earlier is great.

https://youtu.be/UiprVX4os2Y

Bonus, it pisses the liberals off that it’s narrated by an African American woman :-)

[ealgeone]

Paragraphs are helpful.

Made by the less than sign followed by the letter p then the greater than sign.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Sean Trende of Real Clear Politics has done some work that debunks this myth.

While there were probably a few people who went from Democrat to Republican due to Civili Rights, the vast majority did not. in fact the move of the South to the Republicans began in the 40’s and was not complete until the 2000 election.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/misunderstanding_the_southern_realignment_107084.html

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/30/southern_whites_shift_to_the_gop_predates_the_60s_118172.html

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/04/the-southern-strategy-debunked-again.php

[drjimmy]

Go to Woodrow Wilson. He’s unmistakably a modern non-southern liberal, and unmistakenly a big league racist.

Non-southern? You might want to re-think that claim.

[dblshot]

If one looks at southern cities and gerrymandered districts there is a preponderance of black democrats elected by black voters. Blaming whitey for blacks problems lets the black officials off the hook and helps get blacks to the polls. Once blacks start voting for their best interests like a job they might switch faster than any supposed southern party switch. BLM is an adjunct to keeping black voters afraid and in their place. Ironic.

[piasa]

If the parties flipped, Byrd would have switched to the GOP.

So would Fulbright...

So would Al Gore whose father was a rat.

[mikelets456]

I tried and it kept changing it to that format. I typed in Word then copy and pasted...I can’t edit either...sorry.

[TBP]

The so-called “Southern strategy” comes from a 1968 book by Kevin Phillips. he noticed the demographic trend going on in the South and suggested that this would be a good place for Republicans to focus to build a victory coalition.

[FreedomOfExpression]

<p>Good lord! Paragraphs are done like this.</p>

<p> The myth of the big flip. The Republican party started as to abolish slavery that the Democrat party had no desire to abolish. Hence entered Abraham Lincoln running on the same Republican platform as Republicans run on today .</p>

<p> The Democrats continued on the platform of slavery. SCOTUS had a chance to overturn slavery in 1857...</p>

[stylin19a]

start going thru the southern states and look at which party held the governors mansion.

start with Arkansas. Then maybe Florida, then Alabama, then Georgia. Wiki will give you a list of govs. for each state.

Then show then to those morons you are talking with, and ask them to pick which governor and\or what date the state “flipped”.

[sportutegrl]

Democrats have always seen blacks as less than human. This is why they were pro slavery, pro Jim Crow, and against civil rights. This is ALSO why they are pro welfare, and affirmative action. To them blacks are somehow less human than whites and can't compete on a level playing field. Democrats also think blacks are sex crazed animals and need someone to provide them with birth control and abortion serivices.

Republicans believe that if the playing field were truly equal (color blind), that blacks would rise to the challenge and compete with whites. They see black people as their equals, not betters, deserving of the right to vote, to be free, and to go to the same neighborhood schools. Dems are in favor of forced busing to ship white suburban children to black inner city schools because they don't think blacks can learn unless they are sitting next to a white child.

As for the so called Southern Strategy, look up the 1968 Presidential election facts. A third party candidate (George Wallace) carried the South, SPLITTING THE DEMOCRAT VOTE and throwing the election to Nixon. How did Nixon win if Wallace split the Republican vote? The Southern Strategy was to sit back and let the Democrats tear themselves apart. When the Democrats finally realized they could no longer win elections, THEY went after the black vote because they saw blacks as stupid enough to forget everything Republicans had done: end slavery, end Jim Crow, end segregated schools, voting rights act, civil rights, etc.

[MSF BU]

In 1976 much of Reagan’s strength in the primary came from disaffected Wallace voters in the South. In 1980 they helped to push him over the top. Draw your own conclusions.

[Dr. Sivana]

Non-southern? You might want to re-think that claim.

You're right. I always associated him with New Jersey and Princeton, but he started out in Virginia. How did he go wrong?

[Gen-X-Dad]

I usually try to get them to understand that Hillary Clinton admired and mentored under Robert Byrd, who was a KKK member that filibustered the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s. Even then, their eyes glaze over from deprogramming their indictrination.