You really should try learning some history. You are just making yourself look foolish.
Will Duck Dynasty Be The Tipping Point Of PC?
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You really should try learning some history. You are just making yourself look foolish.
Another typical liberal rebuttal. Call someone foolish or any other name to insult their intelligence, yet provide nothing to disprove what they say. LOL
Here you go. I suggesting reading something other than erroneous right wing propaganda for a change. It may save you from looking foolish next time.
In the century after Reconstruction, the white South identified with the Democratic Party. The Democratic parties dominance in the southern states was so strong, the region was called the Solid South. The Republicans controlled certain parts of the Appalachian Mountains,[41] and they sometimes did compete for statewide office in the border states.[42]
Before 1948, the Southern Democrats saw their party as the defender of the Southern way of life, which included a respect for states' rights and an appreciation for traditional southern values. They repeatedly warned against the aggressive designs of Northern liberals and Republicans, as well as the civil rights activists they denounced as "outside agitators". Thus there was a serious barrier to becoming a Republican.[42]
In 1948, Democrats alienated white Southerners in two ways. The Democratic National Convention adopted a strong civil rights plank, leading to a walkout by Southerners. Two weeks later President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981 integrating the armed forces. In 1948 the Deep South walked out, formed a new regional party and nominated J. Strom Thurmond. He carried the Deep South but the outer South stayed with Truman and the "Dixiecrats" returned to the party.
1964â72[edit]
By 1964 the Democratic lock on the South was decisively broken. One long-term cause was that the region was becoming more like the rest of the nation and could not long stand apart in terms of racial segregation. Modernization brought factories, businesses, and larger cities, and millions of migrants from the North; far more people graduated from high school and college. Meanwhile the cotton and tobacco basis of the traditional South faded away, as former farmers moved to town or commuted to factory jobs. Segregation, requiring separate dining and lodging arrangements for employees, was a serious obstacle to business development.
The highly visible immediate cause of the political transition involved civil rights. The civil rights movement caused enormous controversy in the white South with many attacking it as a violation of states' rights. When segregation was outlawed by court order and by the Civil Rights acts of 1964 and 1965, a die-hard element resisted integration, led by Democratic governors Orval Faubus of Arkansas, Lester Maddox of Georgia, Ross Barnett of Mississippi, and, especially, George Wallace of Alabama. These populist governors appealed to a less-educated, blue-collar electorate that on economic grounds favored the Democratic Party and supported segregation.[43]
After passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 most Southerners accepted the integration of most institutions (except public schools). With the old barrier to becoming a Republican removed, Southerners joined the new middle class and the Northern transplants in moving toward the Republican Party. Integration thus liberated Southern politics from the old racial issues. In 1963 the federal courts declared unconstitutional the practice of excluding African-American voters from the Democratic primaries, which had been the only elections that mattered in most of the South. Meanwhile the newly enfranchised black voters supported Democratic candidates at the 85â90% level, a shift which further convinced many white segregationists that the Republicans were no longer the black party.[43]
The South's transition to a Republican stronghold took decades and manifested an incremental seepage downward from national to state to local levels. First the states started voting Republican in presidential electionsâthe Democrats countered that by nominating Southerners who could carry some states in the region, such as Jimmy Carter in 1976, and Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996; however, the strategy did not work with Al Gore in 2000.[44] Then the states began electing Republican senators to fill open seats caused by retirements, and finally governors and state legislatures changed sides.[45]
Georgia was the last state to fall, with Sonny Perdue taking the governorship in 2002. Republicans aided the process with redistricting that protected the African-American and Hispanic vote (as required by the Civil Rights laws), but split up the remaining white Democrats so that Republicans mostly would win.[45] In 2006 the Supreme Court endorsed nearly all of the gerrymandering engineered by Tom DeLay that swung the Texas Congressional delegation to the GOP in 2004. DeLay himself still has not gone to prison for illegally funding the state GOP.
In addition to its white middle class base, Republicans attracted strong majorities from the Evangelical Christian vote (including southern pockets of traditionalist Roman Catholics as in south Louisiana), which had been nonpolitical before 1980.[46] The national Democratic Party's support for liberal social stances such as abortion drove many former Democrats into a Republican Party that was embracing the conservative views on these issues. Conversely, liberal Republicans in the northeast began to join the Democratic Party.
In 1969 in The Emerging Republican Majority, Kevin Phillips argued that support from Southern whites and growth in the South, among other factors, were driving an enduring Republican electoral realignment. Today, the South is again generally solid in state elections, and mostly solid in presidential contests, but now for the Republicans. Exit polls in 2004 showed that George W. Bush led John Kerry 70% to 30% among whites, who constituted 71% of southern voters.[47]
Kerry had a 90% to 9% lead among the 18% of black voters. One-third of the Southerners said they were white evangelicals; they voted for Bush, 80% to 20%.[47] In 2008 Barack Obama carried Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia; in 2010 the GOP regained their losses.
Why should anyone read the drivel you post.
You have been proven to lie on ET 100 times. You should be replaced with a better liar
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Why should anyone read the drivel you post.
You have been proven to lie on ET 100 times. You should be replaced with a better liar
You have been proven to be a total idiot. Stop humping my leg you crazed douchebag.
That doesn't prove that the parties switched. That just shows that a few of the ideologies changed and that blacks switched to Democratic voters instead of Republican....the same thing I've been saying. You haven't proven that a bunch of Dixiecrats from the racist, pro-slavery, pro-segregation DNC members migrated to the Republican party. Being a southern man myself, I will say that a lot of whites down here do in fact vote Republican. Why? Because they've gotten over the whole race thing...and they want to see people, no matter their skin color, live responsibly and lift themselves up by their own bootstraps. Guess who still votes Democrat though? Those that are still on that race crap. Blacks who believe that "da white manz is holdin me down so I needz muh gubment handoutz" and whites who make money off of the degenerate state of minorities and others in America.
The war between Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson and A&E might not be over.
According to a report at the Daily Mail, the Robertson patriarch is looking into ways to move the hit program about his family to "a Christian channel more in keeping with his views."
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz2pI8e2vw9
According to a report at the Daily Mail, the Robertson patriarch is looking into ways to move the hit program about his family to "a Christian channel more in keeping with his views."
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz2pI8e2vw9
The latest Phil R Bronze Age wisdom to be revealed.
"Look, you wait 'til they get to be 20 years old, the only picking that's going to take place is your pocket," he said. "You got to marry these girls when they are about 15 or 16. They'll pick your ducks. You need to check with mom and dad about that, of course."
"Look, you wait 'til they get to be 20 years old, the only picking that's going to take place is your pocket," he said. "You got to marry these girls when they are about 15 or 16. They'll pick your ducks. You need to check with mom and dad about that, of course."