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Michael N
Guest
The Republican Party--the party of Abraham Lincoln, the party that led the struggle against slavery--is now the party of racism.
Radical Republicans impeached Democratic President Andrew Johnson from Tennessee because he supported a moderate approach to reconstruction. U.S. Grant came along and began a ten-year struggle to give economic and political opportunities to the former slaves.
After the troops left the South, all kinds of Jim-Crow laws, segregation, and racist organizations such as the KKK developed in the South.
Most of the old ugliness of the South has now been eliminated, although the Republicans still rely on their racist "Southern Strategy" developed by Nixon in 1968. Now of course they not only demonstrate racism against African Americans, but also against Latinos, using many of the same old words and tactics.
What caused this turn around? Was it Grant's alignment with the railroad interests, robber barons, and the rich in general? Or FDR?
Radical Republicans impeached Democratic President Andrew Johnson from Tennessee because he supported a moderate approach to reconstruction. U.S. Grant came along and began a ten-year struggle to give economic and political opportunities to the former slaves.
After the troops left the South, all kinds of Jim-Crow laws, segregation, and racist organizations such as the KKK developed in the South.
Most of the old ugliness of the South has now been eliminated, although the Republicans still rely on their racist "Southern Strategy" developed by Nixon in 1968. Now of course they not only demonstrate racism against African Americans, but also against Latinos, using many of the same old words and tactics.
What caused this turn around? Was it Grant's alignment with the railroad interests, robber barons, and the rich in general? Or FDR?