I’ve been to the war zone looking areas of Baltimore and East Chicago and can’t imagine much worse. Although I was not around during “Jim Crow”, at least illegal drug use was not likely at epidemic levels seen today.
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I’ve been to the war zone looking areas of Baltimore and East Chicago and can’t imagine much worse. Although I was not around during “Jim Crow”, at least illegal drug use was not likely at epidemic levels seen today.
And hundreds remain?
Indeed.The party once represented the people of the confederate south.Th Republican party represents them now
Southern strategy
In American politics, the Southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3] As the civil rights movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidate Richard Nixon and Senator Barry Goldwater developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South who had traditionally supported the Democratic Party rather than the Republican Party. It also helped to push the Republican Party much more to the right.[4]
The "Southern Strategy" refers primarily to "top down" narratives of the political realignment of the South which suggest that Republican leaders consciously appealed to many white Southerners' racial grievances in order to gain their support.[5] This top-down narrative of the Southern Strategy is generally believed to be the primary force that transformed Southern politics following the civil rights era.[6][7] This view has been questioned by historians such as Matthew Lassiter, Kevin M. Kruse and Joseph Crespino, who have presented an alternative, "bottom up" narrative, which Lassiter has called the "suburban strategy". This narrative recognizes the centrality of racial backlash to the political realignment of the South,[8] but suggests that this backlash took the form of a defense of de facto segregation in the suburbs rather than overt resistance to racial integration and that the story of this backlash is a national rather than a strictly Southern one.[9][10][11][12]
The perception that the Republican Party had served as the "vehicle of white supremacy in the South", particularly during the Goldwater campaign and the presidential elections of 1968 and 1972, made it difficult for the Republican Party to win back the support of black voters in the South in later years.[4] In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a national civil rights organization, for exploiting racial polarization to win elections and ignoring the black vote.[13][14]
The conservative confederate states during slavery,segregation and Jim Crow were worse imo.
Democratic behavior is high turnout and winning by 10 millions votes in 2018.That suggest Trump is done in 2020.
So let me get this straight: Under Democrats, they were slaveowners and under Republicans they were not? This helps your argument in some way?
I did not count the statues, but the list was long.
That would be confederate monuments in the Republican/conservative south
Confederate monuments are widely distributed across the southern United States.[35] The distribution pattern follows the general political boundaries of the Confederacy.[35] Of the more than 1503 public monuments and memorials to the Confederacy, more than 718 are monuments and statues. Nearly 300 monuments and statues are in Georgia, Virginia, or North Carolina. According to one researcher, "the absence of monuments in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina indicates those regions' Union sentiment, and the few monuments in Maryland, West Virginia, and Kentucky reflect those states' ambivalent war-time politics." The Northern States that remained part of the Union, as well as the Western States that were largely settled after the Civil War, have few or no memorials to the Confederacy.
More than a few historians, I am told, say the Southern Black enjoyed a better overall quality of life in South and were happier. This may even apply today. However, I will rely on someone to chime in if they have sources.