Thomas wrote:Abraham wrote:Straight out of the article: "It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, RETROGRESSIVE white guys"
There's that liberal code word again: RETROGRESSIVE - a word liberals can define in any way they care to...
If I had the oppritunity, I would basically share this bit of history:
"It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S’s: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.
It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s."
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http://www.humanevents.com/2006/08/16/w ... epublican/
There are many Southerners who are Democrats because a Republican "freed the slaves."