In 1965, the governor of Alabama was named George Wallace. He was a Democrat


Like I said Jim your willingness to ignore history is astounding

And your attempt to suggest that was your point is comical
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Neither the Democratic nor the Republican parties of today are like their 19th century forebearers. By the late 1960s, the national Democratic Party had abandoned its former support for legal segregation and enjoyed strong support from Black voters, while Republicans had embraced a white backlash to voting and civil rights to build their party in the South.

One has to wrap your mind around the fact parties evolve, and they change, and they have points of view and they’re not same in one century as they are in another,”

But not you Jim you can’t wrap your mind around such a simplistic concept


President Lyndon B. Johnson, although a southern Democrat himself, signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. This led to heavy opposition from Southern Democrats.
Subsequent to the passage of civil rights legislation, many White southerners switched to the Republican Party at the national level. Many scholars have said that Southern whites shifted to the Republican Party due to racial conservatism
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And you’re claiming George Wallace was on the left.
So yes you don’t understand political history.
Next you’ll be claiming Lee Atwater was a wacko RINO.
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I wouldn’t want to be eating lunch to close to DJT today, as he watches the committee vote to refer him for prosecution, hope they served his lunch on paper plates to avoid the breakage.

Nothing has changed for the actual crowd infected with TDS .

They’ll just dumb it down to a witch hunt . Or as I’ve been told evidence and facts are not the same
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Proud Boys members 'intend to subpoena' Donald Trump at their seditious conspiracy trial
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those 3 Marines are about to at a minimum Get a Bad conduct discharge

Dishonorable discharge or sedition charge would be better

"Many scholars" have said that Southern whites shifted to the Republican Party due to the issue of preserving States Rights. And there's this:

During his years as vice president under Dwight Eisenhower, Nixon sought to ensure minorities — especially African Americans — weren’t discriminated against in federal contracts. He also worked with Congress to spearhead the Civil Rights Act of 1957, sweeping legislation and a precursor to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.

As President, Nixon sought to expand economic opportunities for African Americans by ending discrimination in the work place, through the endowment of black colleges with federal funds, and helping them find meaningful employment through job assistance programs, and promotion of entrepreneurship — an initiative called “Black Capitalism.”

In 1970, Nixon sought to end the decades old and egregious tradition of segregated schools for black and white children throughout the nation, predominantly in the Southern states.

Nixon was VP when the Eisenhower administration accomplished much in the area of Civil Rights. It was President Eisenhower who integrated the armed forces, promoted more blacks into the federal bureaucracy than his predecessors, and appointed federal judges, and lawyers in his justice department, who supported racial justice. In 1954, he integrated Little Rock’s Central High School to enforce the 1954 unanimous Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which held that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” and overturned a half century of Court precedent which stated otherwise.

As VP, Nixon chaired a committee to combat discrimination among contractors retained by the Federal Government. He used his chair to meet and forge relationships with Civil Rights leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, and NAACP director Roy Wilkins; lobby companies to end discrimination; encourage African American ownership of businesses and employment to executive positions.

During his second term as vice president, Nixon shepherded through Congress the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first Civil Rights legislation since reconstruction. The 1957 legislation empowered the Justice Department to prosecute Civil Rights cases through a newly established Civil Rights Division, and allowed federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions when the citizens’ right to vote was being obstructed.

Nixon’s role proved to be crucial in Congress. He was vocal about the administration’s Civil Rights goals, and serving in his Constitutional role as President of the U.S. Senate, he helped lead the effort to bring the bill to the Senate floor.

Though Southern Democrats opposed and blocked provisions that would give the Justice Department authority to protect broad Constitutional rights including school desegregation, and voting rights violations — Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. told Vice President Nixon that it was “much better than no bill at all… we can at least be sure that we are moving steadily ahead.”

King closed the August 1957 letter, writing, “Let me say before closing how deeply grateful all people of goodwill are to you for your assiduous labor and dauntless courage in seeking to make the Civil Rights Bill a reality.”

In an August 1957 constituent letter, Vice President Nixon expressed disappointment that the Senate had watered down the original version of the Civil Rights bill. However, he did express hope, writing “I am convinced that we shall continue to make real progress toward our goal of guaranteeing rights for every American.”

Some historians say that by the time Nixon was inaugurated in 1969, the nation was its most divided since the Civil War.

One of the pressing issues of Nixon’s first administration was school desegregation. Despite the unanimous ruling in Brown v. Board of Education Topeka (1954) and the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill, 80 percent of schools remained segregated throughout the nation’s South.

In 1969, in another unanimous decision, the Supreme Court decided in Alexander v. Holmes County, “to terminate dual school systems at once and to operate now and hereafter unitary schools.”

The Nixon administration chose to adopt the policy position of a unitary school system.
The Nixon administration’s position was to enforce the Brown decision that integration “should take place with all deliberate speed”.

In fall 1969, 600,000 blacks attended desegregated schools in the South; one year later 3 million had been integrated. By percentage in 1968, nearly 70 percent of black children were segregated from their white peers; by the end of Nixon’s first term it was just 8 percent.

President Nixon signed the Voting Rights Act of 1970, nationalizing the 1965 legislation and expanding its reach to northern states.

The Nixon administration ended discrimination in companies and labor unions that received federal contracts, and set guidelines and goals for affirmative action hiring for African Americans. The policy, known as the Philadelphia Plan (from where it originated) — initially included government contracts in excess of $500,000 in the construction trade, and later expanded to include contracts of $50,000 or more in all areas of industry, and quotas for women.

President Nixon signed the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 giving the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) greater power to enforce against workplace discrimination. Between 1969 and 1972, the EEOC staff had increased from 359 to 1,640 and budget from 13.2 million to $29 million.

Another policy pillar of the Nixon administration was expanding education and economic opportunities for African Americans. To lead this initiative, the President appointed Robert J. Brown, an African American business leader, as a White House special assistant.

Following a meeting with the presidents of black colleges, arranged by Brown, Nixon promised more than $100 million in federal funds for black colleges.

Government assistance to black owned business enterprises also more than doubled. Federal purchases increased from $13 million to $142 million from 1969 to 1971, and total revenues from black businesses jumped from $4.5 billion in 1968 to $7.26 billion in 1972. By 1974, two-thirds of the 100 largest black enterprises had been started during the Nixon administration.

Why would racist southern whites switch their party allegiance for this kind of Republicanism? Especially when their racist federal politicians, with the exeption of one, Strom Thurmond, did not switch parties and remained in the Democrat Party.

Listening to your song and dance one would think all blacks would be Republicans, but they’re not.

Maybe they saw through the Republican baloney

Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?

Atwater: Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."
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And the South became less racist when it became Republican--when the "big switch" baloney supposedly happened.

Have you seen a picture of Republican members of Congress?
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Those white guys done good. Oh, I forgot, you believe white people are racists.

No silly, some would think they would be representative of their constituents.
Or have very very few black people “done good”?
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I don't expect my representatives to look like me (unless I'm some sort of bigot). I expect them to constitutionally protect my individual rights and prevent government from usurping them for the benefit of others whether they be rich oligarchs or a permanent class of government dependents regardless of their color.

And yes, after Republicans began to run things in the South after the defeat of racist Democrats, the plight of blacks improved a great deal, and many have done good since, even very good, they weren't allowed to do much good under the Dixiecrats. And the horrible, rabid, deadly reign of terror against blacks was greatly destroyed. If there had actually been a switch, that reign terror would have continued.

The so-called switch was a propagandistic lie.

Boebert makes my head spin:

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski strongly rejected Rep. Lauren Boebert's (R-CO) complaint about Capitol rioters being unarmed during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
The Colorado Republican clashed with Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee over a proposed ban on members carrying guns in the hearing room, and the "Morning Joe" co-host was astonished that Boebert used the attack on the U.S. Capitol -- which she foreshadowed that morning on Twitter -- as justification to arm herself in Congress.

"It was the first time in many, many years that I have been unprotected," Boebert told the committee. "I was disarmed, not unarmed, disarmed, because I was not allowed to possess my firearm."

Boebert was suggesting she wanted to shoot the rioters who were coming to disrupt the election that she wanted overturned.

Trump probably didn’t sleep well last night after finding out Pence has been subpoenaed, they have been slowly getting to the last couple pieces of the puzzle, the big question remains; will they finally charge Trump. If I were Pence I would happily throw Trump under the buss.