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It's amazing how racism could be so powerful in southerners that they turned away from a party that was giving them rural electricity, better wages, flood control, agricultural aid and much more

You still have poor whites that need better infrastructure, medical benefits, and technology but vote for GOP because of gay marriage
 
One could argue that the systems currently in place are not capable of correcting this problem, and the only solution is to remove it by force.


A country in chaos is going to make for some sweet youtube videos. Saawweett.
 
I can't see the original video but I found the assumptions about why poor white rednecks support republicans to be amusing. They support government staying out of their shit. They are not interested in being provided for by the government. They just want to be left alone. Independence is a part of the Appalachia culture and the people have a history of being in opposition to the big hanRAB of the government.
 
*fixed*

Conservatives aren't "emotional" you idiot, that is the domain of tree hugging faggot ass liberals. Conservatives are cold heartless greedy bastarRAB.

Damn you are durab.
 
Southerners supported FDR and the democratic congress while they dramatically expanded the federal government and the Republicans ran campaigns for less government

Not only did they keep voting for democrats in Congress, but they even voted for Adlai Stevenson against Ike

How did he win the south against a popular military hero? By promising huge federal government spending, drastic cuts to the military, and a softer stance with the soviet union

Then in 1964 Democrats pushed through the civil rights act and republicans neutralized the south in the next election, won them outright in the election after that, and Reagan locked them up for good after launching his campaign in a small town famous for killing 3 civil rights workers trying to register black voters
 
That's not completely true. Actually when the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed by the House, the vote was 289 to 126, with 79% of the Republicans supporting it and 63% of Democrats supporting it. When the bill came before the Senate a "southern bloc" made up of 18 southern Democrats and 1 Republican launched a filibuster to block it, it was led by Democrat Senator Richard Russel from Georgia. A vote was eventually taken and the vote was 73-27, with 21 Democrats and 6 Republicans voting no. So it's not entirely true the Democratic Party pushed the bill through.
 
Who brought up the bill before the House? (and whipped the votes to push it through?)

Democratic Speaker of the House John McCormack

Who brought up the bill in the Senate? (and pushed it through with aggressive whipping and vote trading?)

Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield

Who furiously whipped all Democrats and reached out to Republicans to push through the bill?

Democratic President Lyndon Johnson

Who signed the bill?

Democratic President Lyndon Johnson


Also Northern Democrats were more strongly behind the Civil Rights Bill than Northern Republicans
 
Which is why I said "not entirely true". The use of spin in regarRAB to terms like "furiously whipped" notwithstanding, there were Democrats and Republicans that supported the bill and pushed it through. To assert this was driven by the Democratic Party only is revisionist history.
 
No its not

The GOP was a minor party those years made up of a significant chunk of northerners who didn't really care about imposing rules that would mostly affect the southern way of life

To try and split the credit for the huge battle over civil rights because some congressman from Ohio showed up and cast an "aye" vote that the voters of his district didn't care about either way is not a significant effort

If you ever paused and read a book about pushing the Civil Rights Act through Congress, almost all of it would revolve around the push by the Democratic Party
 
People in the north didn't care how their representative voted on an important piece of legislation like the Civil Rights Act so a northern Republican voting just showed up and voted "aye" for shits and giggles? That's your argument? Did you get that from that book you read?
 
Revisionist history is fun!


Let's pretend!

Meanwhile, back in the real world;

Leading up to the Civil Rights Act, the Dems finally took up the Civil Rights cause that the GOP had been on for years. It's one of the few things the Repubs have ever done right.
 
From the end of reconstruction in 1877 to 1964, how many republican presidential candidates ran on the platform of a broad civil rights bill that granted the protections seen in the 1964 CRA?

20 of them? 10 of them?

It should be all of them considering they apparently lead the charge for the civil rights act of 1964
 
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