dhelix33 wrote:
Democrats did not enslave black people - rich white racist landowners seeking free profit did (similar to rich white racists that created the astro turf Teabagger/Tea Party 'movement'......etc
I have a clue. You need to read and understand.
First:
For 100 years, the Republicans fought for the freedom and equality of blacks. Lincoln was a Republican, and he won the freedom from slavery for blacks. In 1957, Eisenhower sent the U.S. Army to Little Rock to force Democrat Governor Orval Fabus to desegregate the schools.
All of the racist bigots became Democrats after the Civil War because Lincoln was a Republican. For 100 years, Democrats were the ones who lynched blacks and made laws against blacks.
That's why most blacks were Republicans until the Democrats bought their votes with welfare in 1964.
But even though the blacks switched parties in 1964, most racist bigots did not.
How many pre-1964 southern racist Democrat bigots did NOT join the Republican party after 1964?
Orval Fabus
Benjamin Travis Laney
John Stennis
James Eastland
Allen Ellender
Russell Long
John Sparkman
John McClellan
Richard Russell
Herman Talmadge
George Wallace
Lester Maddox
John Rarick
Robert Byrd
Al Gore, Sr.<--Oh look! See My first reply
Bull Connor
In fact, it seems that MOST of the Dixiecrats did NOT join the Republican party, even though many of them lived long past 1964.
Only a very few of them switched to the GOP, such as Strom Thurmond and Mills Godwin.
And as we all know by now, the LAST admitted former KKK member in Congress was Democrat Robert Byrd, a former KKK Kleagle, a recruiter who persuaded people to join the KKK. He fillibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Second: Civil Rights Act of 1964 roll call vote breakdown by numbers
House of Representatives:
Democrats for: 152
Democrats against: 96
Republicans for: 138
Republicans against: 34
Senate:
Democrats for: 46
Democrats against: 21
Republicans for: 27
Republicans against: 6
As you can see, more than half of democrats are against the vote in the house, almost half in senate. While a quarter of republicans in the house, and a fifth in the senate are against. Do the math.
But it was Lyndon "we will have niggers voting for us for years" Johnson, (his off the record quote) that signed it and gets all of the credit.
Oh, and Martin Luther King was, and would still be today, a conservative republican. But it was Jessee Jackson that saw the dollar signs.
Ok...now for the clincher. There were actually more slaves owned by free blacks and native Americans than white landowners. There are plenty of places to look up what your black studies professors will try to re indoctrinate, so look here...and READ! (Its a long article, scroll all the way)
http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htmYour welcome!