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Originally Posted by crockett
I wonder what some of those far right pundits would think if they ever read a bit of history and learned the Republican Party used to be the black man's party..
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This is high school American history, whatever you may think of them the Far Right pundits are well aware that Lincoln was a Republican and the 'Solid South' was total electoral domination by the Democrats across the segregated South. And remained that way until the national Democratic party took up the civil rights movement in 1948, which pissed off the segregationists enough to start a third party known as the Dixiecrats, Strom Thurmond was their candidate, who incredibly served as a US senator until his death in 2003 at age 100.
Interesting, as I read the Wikipedia entries, I see these Southern Democrats who are the ancestors of the Tea Party movement were
against keeping the United States on the gold standard, today they rant and rave against the tyranny of our fiat currency system.