Dixiecrats

TJustice said:
It would be like a Muslim strapping on a suicide bomb vest at a party in lower Manhattan.
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One has to consider timing and what's happened to attitudes since the jim crow era and context, don't you think? It could well be that 40 years from now your suicide bomber going to a party with a Rabbi partner in traditional garb could be seen as quite humorous by those not afraid to poke fun at narrow minded chauvinism. Expand your thinking to include distance and context.. and get a life. You wouldn't do it, I probably wouldn't do it, but lets not be judgemental where it gains us nothing. Why try to read something that's likely not there into a situation we know nothing about? Why let others with a political agenda poison our minds?
 
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piezoe said:
In this instance, the affair had a far right origin. They must have been hoping the response would be as it in fact turned out. Now they are using the same tactic on the guy that would replace the Governor. He's a democrat too I believe. The network producers all want to be on the side of the majority. Whether it makes sense or not is not their concern. Their job is to sell advertising, and that means getting audience share however you can. Don't piss your viewers off, agree with them! This band wagon stuff isn't just a phenomenon among democrats, it is part of our nature. We want to be part of the group. That's where peer pressure comes from.

I'm a lucky guy I am free from all that. I'm old, I'm educated, and I'm free to think for myself, and this sort of thing makes me damn crotchety. And a few others here are as well -- free to think on their own, not necessarily crotchety. Nice to see it. I don't care what happens to that guy in Virginia, that's up to Virginians. But wouldn't it be nice if Virginians, too, would think for themselves. I know nothing of the circumstances of that photo, I just know it's hilarious, and chances are very good that those two in the photo, whoever they are, are about as far from racist as you could get. Have you ever seen the Movie "To Be or Not to Be." We'll it's got lots of folks prancing around in Nazi uniforms. Have you ever seen "The Great Dictator" ? So let's not lose our heads here and buy into some line that some pernicious person, or organization with a political agenda, wants us to buy into. Let's just look at the picture of two people at a costume party that, so far as any of us knows, have no agenda other than, as a couple, to be funny as shit. Maybe they are horrible racists, who knows. But folks, all we have to go on is one funny as shit photo. Let's not read anything into it beyond that.
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If we were in more sensible times i would agree with you 100%. Sadly we are in idiotic times where everything is taken as a crisis of monumental proportion. It is the left that brought us here. It is the left who have lost their sense of humor. It is the left wanting to dig into everyone's past. It is the left that wants to magnify every single thing. And why? Trump. It is the left who apparently is willing to burn the house down over a leaky faucet, so here we are all twisted up over a silly picture and another unsubstantiated allegation of sexual misconduct.
 
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Theme parties were very common on college campuses in the 1980s. Many of them hosted by fraternities. One of the common themes was KKK/Blackface.

These KKK/Blackface theme parties were not only common at universities in the South, but across the entire U.S. There were also parties where people would attempt to mimic popular entertainment figures in blackface. At the time all of this was viewed at entertaining rather than offensive. However now cultural norms have evolved where this is now considered to be very offensive.

If every politician who ever attended one of these theme parties was kicked out of office then probably 25% of politicians would be given the boot. And most of the politicians sent packing would be Democrats because they are more likely to belong to frats and attend more parties during college than Republicans who more likely lived a more constrained life during their college years.
 
CaptainObvious said:
Jesus, are there any of the democrats who weren't/aren't closet Klan members?
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...ia-ag-says-he-wore-blackface-at-college-party
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Democrats owned black slaves. That is etched in US history. Of course, Democrats trying to spread their fairy tale that is was the Republicans who are the racists and not them! Democrat Senator Robert Bryd was a KKK klansman with numerous pictures wearing his KKK robe with his hood on his arm. Republicans died fighting for black rights yet, the Congressional Black Caucus calls Republicans racist? These guys sold out their own race! Blacks when they research it, find that they have been lied to! Anything to get their votes! That is why more blacks now support President Donald Trump, they are finding out the truth!
 
gwb-trading said:
Let me provide my thoughts in this...

Theme parties were very common on college campuses in the 1980s. Many of them hosted by fraternities. One of the common themes was KKK/Blackface.

These KKK/Blackface theme parties were not only common at universities in the South, but across the entire U.S. There were also parties where people would attempt to mimic popular entertainment figures in blackface. At the time all of this was viewed at entertaining rather than offensive. However now cultural norms have evolved where this is now considered to be very offensive.

If every politician who ever attended one of these theme parties was kicked out of office then probably 25% of politicians would be given the boot. And most of the politicians sent packing would be Democrats because they are more likely to belong to frats and attend more parties during college than Republicans who more likely lived a more constrained life during their college years.
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I can't recall when it all started in the Deep South* post integration, Southern Democrats who were almost all white and voted largely with the Republicans once, and if, they got to Congress, and
Southern Republicans who were almost all black and would have voted with the Democrats if they ever got to Congress, decided -- eventually -- to switch parties, but it wasn't immediately after integration. It was a process like popping corn. At first nothing happened, then a few pops, and then a great popping to create what we have today in Mississippi, our most backward State among the fifty. God Bless America.

Of course the reasoning on both sides was impeccable and unassailable. On one side it was "Lincoln freed the slaves; Lincoln was a Republican; therefore I am a Democrat"; on the other side the logic was every bit as pure, "Lincoln freed the slaves; Lincoln was a Republican; therefore I am a Republican." It makes me wonder how it is we ever got to the moon. Obviously, Yankee minds must have been involved.
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*The Deep South is culturally as far South as you can go in the Continental United States. If there is a geographic and cultural equivalence then the U.S. Deep-South is somewhere South of Antarctica.
 
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Dixiecrats voted with Republicans some times.
The tended to be more fiscally conservative and pro defense. There were Senators like Sam Nunn

but there was also Jesse Helms.
One time a Senator had a poster of Spuds McKenzie on the floor of the Senate. He was going off about the travesty of using a dog to sell beer. He was harping on who it was influencing kids to want beer.

Later, when Jesse Helms getting out as the Senator ripping on Spuds was getting in.

Jessie Helms said hey can I get a copy of that poster for my grand kids... they love Spuds McKenize.

 
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