Today's Republican Party has its based in the conservative confederate South. The RADICAL Party of Lincoln, the PROGRESSIVE Party of Theodore Roosevelt, and the LIBERAL Party of Nelson Rockefeller (the guy who ran against conservative Republican Barry Goldwater in 1964 and actually supported civil rights), were from the NORTHEAST!
The likes of Jesse Helms, Trent Lott, Strom Thurmond, National Review, and the Council of Conservative Citizens did not support civil rights in the 60s. They opposed them! It was LIBERAL groups like the ACLU and NAACP, liberal Republicans like Nelson Rockefeller, and liberal Democrats like JFK, MLK, and LBJ who supported them. It was CONSERVATIVE Republicans like Goldwater and Reagan, and CONSERVATIVE Democrats like Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms (they were Dems back then) who stood against them.
Even former GOP chairman, Ken Mehlman, admitted the GOP used the racist "southern strategy" to take away the South from Dems.
2007-03-16
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