My letter to the Republican Party

theotherwaldo

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Well, the Conservatives lost the House, the Senate, and the White House, all recently under the most extreme version of a right wing candidate/president since, I guess, Wallace.

And I don't call 74 million the same as 80 million, unless you round up to the nearest 10 million. Perhaps you are confusing that number with Biden's (81 million)?
-So now you admit that Democrats are right wing?
As an Alabama-born boy I remember George Wallace and he certainly wasn't a Republican.
Just as Martin Luther King Junior wasn't a Democrat.
(I used serve the Coretta Scott King entourage their Sunday lunch. Heard a lot... .)
 

roscoe

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-So now you admit that Democrats are right wing?
As an Alabama-born boy I remember George Wallace and he certainly wasn't a Republican.
Just as Martin Luther King Junior wasn't a Democrat.
(I used serve the Coretta Scott King entourage their Sunday lunch. Heard a lot... .)

Um, if you don't understand how the Republicans and Democrats flipped positions, I don't know what to say. Wallace was an old-school Dixiecrat and was a right-winger, irrespective of party affiliation (although he had been a 3rd party candidate in 1968).

It's like Republicans claiming Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. They sure wouldn't fit there today!
 

theotherwaldo

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The flip that you are referring to happened over a century ago, not in the 1960s.
A surprising number of those old-time Klan-supporting Dems were the teachers of the current generation of Dems.
Ask Hillary and her clan.
 

roscoe

Well-known member
The flip that you are referring to happened over a century ago, not in the 1960s.
A surprising number of those old-time Klan-supporting Dems were the teachers of the current generation of Dems.
Ask Hillary and her clan.

No.

It happened over an extended period of time, possibly starting with Williams Jennings Bryan but ending with Jimmy Carter. He won every southern state except Oklahoma and Virginia. Keep in mind that Teddy Roosevelt and Taft were explicitly progressives. Wilson, a Democrat, was a famous racist and segregationist. The first truly progressive Democratic President was FDR.

HRC comes from Chicago and has nothing to do with the Dixiecrats and their ilk. I know every right-winger is fixated on her, but she has nothing to do with the old Southern Democrats (those who later converted to become Republicans after LBJ got the Civil Rights Acts passed). All those people, like Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond, etc. converted from the Democrats to the Republicans because the Republicans would put up with segregationists. Nixon went out of his way to court these segregationists in 1968, helping to cement the conversion.

How would HRC be connected to these people, specifically?
 
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