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I can understand why you never learned that Lyndon Johnson was an FDR liberal- that information was cruelly hidden from you inside of books.

I appreciate the sentiment. However, I feel compelled (excuse me while I spit out a little tobacky juice), to point out that you are the one that said yesterday's DemocRATS were the equivalent of today's Conservatives especially in the southern states like Texas which shoulda (excuse my dialect) SHOULD HAVE meant Johnson was a big Conservative, but, instead, he was perhaps the biggest Liberal (I'm putting two and two together here based on your assertion that he was an FDR protege [whatever that word means]) *patooie* (sorry for spittin' without warnin' ya), and yet those same Republicans of yesteryear who are today's DemocRATS are to blame for helping Johnson pass the biggest government expansion since The New Deal.

So, in short, today's Republicans shouldn't take any credit (or blame, depending on your point of view) for passing Civil Rights legislation because today's mean ol' hateful Republicans are yesterday's mean ol' hateful DemocRATS but today's good ol' boy Republicans SHOULD take the blame (or credit, depending on your point of view) for helping pass cartoonish Great Society programs because they are yesterday's good ol' boy DemocRATS.

Or something like that.

Just to shuck it down to the cob as we say down here in The South (actually, I'm from The West - California to be specific - but I'm just pretendin' to be from The South for the sake of this argument), Republicans, bad. DemocRATS good.

I grew up in the South, and was raised by conservative Democrats. These Democrats were totally sold out to FDR. It was unthinkable to even consider registering as anything but a Democrat, since local and state politics were dominated by the Democratic Party.

At the same time my family admired Abraham Lincoln, and the stand that Eisenhower took on integration. States rights were important to my family, but my family (poor and rural)worked with and associated with blacks throughout the depression and afterward. We looked forward to an integrated society, and were ashamed by the Jim Crow laws that existed at the time. Members of the KKK were viewed as someone to never associate with in any way.

My family would vote Republican in national elections, but because of state and local Democratic domination, no Republican stood for office.

We came to realize that the national Democratic Party had been hijacked in Chicago in 1968, and that the media was slanted very left of center. Reagan was a wonderful breath of fresh air, and little by little my family migrated out of the Democratic plantation.

I still have cousins who serve office as Democrats, but were big supporters of W. No, the Democratic Party left conservative Democrats by starting to subdivide everyone into groups and then pitting one group against another, in order to destroy our republic. In the 60's the statement came about that "The media is the message". Yes this message became the drumbeat to convert our republic to a socialist dictatorship. It is really strange to see that once a Democrat become president, he is looked upon by Democrats as an anointed king who can do no wrong. I'm sorry but emperors Jimmy Carter,Bill Clinton, and Barak Obama are not wearing any clothes. Each was a total embarrassment to those who love the republic established by our constitution.