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Originally Posted by EonBlue
No, I didn't insinuate that they championed it. I simply said that more Democrats opposed it than Republicans.
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You do know that because of the way Congress works, the large Democratic majorities in both houses at that time mean that it was Democratic committee chairs and whips and majority leaders who were the shepherds of all of that legislation, acting on President Johnson’s direct instruction? They maneuvered it to the floor, they bartered the votes, they engineered the victory.
You do know that “Dixiecrats” were called that to distinguish them from the rest of the party and that these legislators would not exist as Democrats much beyond 1968? Lyndon Johnson repudiated the Dixiecrats, knowing it would cost his party power and votes for the longterm. He did so anyway because the views of the Dixiecrats were a plague upon the American future. Just like the Republican party of today.
You do know that every Republican politician of the ensuing half century with national ambitions has used Johnson’s triumph and the shadow of racial politics both as wedges to draw white votes and Southern states to their cause. You do know the name Lee Atwater? Karl Rove? Willie Horton? You’ve heard of welfare queens with Cadillacs?
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I'm not saying there aren't any racist Republicans. There are. Just like there are racist Democrats. Both white and black.
But, hey, if black people want to keep voting based on what Nixon did in the past, even if it isn't necessarily in their best interest in the present, then I guess that's their choice. Just seems a little ridiculous to not vote based on the more important issues of the day.
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Are you being serious right now? Are you trying to tell us that the Republican party is responsive to anything but the aspirations of rich white people, and lunatic fringe evangelicals? Why in the fuck would black people vote for a political party that has an entire wing - the teabaggers - complicit in marrying the party to overtly paranoid and racist stances when it comes to such things as the birther bullshit? Why would they vote for the party that was caught red-handed using voter suppression tactics in African-American urban communities? Are you really trying to tell us that it is in their best interest to vote Republican? That it is in ANYONE'S best interest to vote Republican - women, gays, latinos, the middle and working class, etc. etc. Republican policy positions and rhetoric have succeeded in driving every minority and plurality in the electorate out of the GOP camp, that is what happened in this election in case you didn't follow it.