Found this post and wanted to share cuz it answered a lot of questions I had...
by Christopher Cook
It's 2006—election time again.
As with any election year, the commentariat has begun issuing their analysis and many predictions. And, just as they do on any day whose name ends in "day," they'll soon be gracing us all with their many pearls of "conventional wisdom."
One of those many pieces of conventional wisdom—known at this point to just about all of us—is that black Americans vote for Democrats. Overwhelmingly so.
In fact, they vote in greater percentages—usually around 90%—for one political party than any other major demographic group. To have a demographic group vote so overwhelmingly for one party is rather amazing, and so I decided to look into the history of the two political parties to see if I could discover why.
One of the first things I discovered in my research is that there was a demographic group in America's past that—believe it or not—actually gave their votes to one political party in even greater percentages.
The demographic group was the same: black Americans.
The percentage was 100%.
The party that enjoyed those levels of support? The Republican Party.
Huh?
I know, I know, but wait... it gets even weirder. The Democratic Party is, today, thought of as the political champion and proponent of the interests of black Americans. But for almost all of the history of this country, the Democrats were the party of slavery, secession, Jim Crow, lynching, segregation, and opposition to nearly every piece of civil rights legislation ever passed.
And...
The Republicans were the party of abolition and emancipation. They opposed segregation, lynching, and Jim Crow. And they were the sole authors of nearly every civil rights legislation and amendment passed in the United States!
No, I am not smoking anything.
And cling tightly to your caps, because there's more. The Democrats were the creators of the Ku Klux Klan, which they founded with the expressed purpose of using violence to purge Republicans from Southern politics. Essentially, the KKK began its existence as the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party.
Now let's all just take a deep breath—I am NOT making this stuff up.
At this point in my study, I had more questions than I did answers, so I decided to be a bit more systematic. Whether we be Democrats, Republicans, or something else, we should all share a devotion to what is historically true. And so, I have put together a little timeline on this subject. These things may not be widely discussed, taught, or known today, but they are historical facts that are not generally in dispute. Personally, I found them quite surprising, and I think you might too.
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After LBJ's civil rights laws were passed the southern democrats left in droves and joined with the republicans. Hoping to undo what LBJ had done.
ReplyDeleteIt became part of Nixon's southern stategy with a wink and nod to the racists. It has been happening ever since.
What a lunatic.
ReplyDeleteThe Southern Dems were the religious conservatives . Men like Lee, Davis, Toombs, Yancey.
All democrats. They stayed democrats after the war for 100 years cause they hated civil Rights that much.
When LBJ pushed civil Rights down their throats, they left the Dem party. Men like Haley Barbour, Newt Gingrich, Dick Army Strom Thurmond, were all democrats.
Millions of Southern democrats switched away from DEM party because they STILL hated civil Rights,and the Norther Dems were for civil rights.
So call them whatever you want, the religious conservatives in the South were the ones torturing children and selling women.