Isn't today's southern dominated Republican Party just the old racist Dixiecrat Party of the past?

Question

They are for "state rights" and "traditional" southern values just like the Dixiecrat Party of the past.

I recently asked them if they were for "state rights" or centralized federal power. They all jumped in and proudly claimed to stand for state rights. But when I ask them how can they be for "state rights" and yet claim heritage to northeasten radical / progressive / liberal Republicans like Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Nelson Rockefeller, they were speechless.

They all tripped over themselves answering my first question but avoided the second one like the plague.

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Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Nelson Rockefeller were definitely no "state rights" Republicans. These guys used the power of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to:

- free the slaves
- break up corporate monopolies
- protect the environment
- regulate big business
- help the American worker
and
- vote (along with liberal Democrats) to give minorities equal rights.

heavymetal,

I know my facts quite well. If you read my question you would have noticed I said the Southern CONSERVATIVE wing of the Democrat Party was the racist wing. Most of these people have since been voting Republican.

Answer 1

as the kool-aid pitcher might say - OH YEAH!!

Answer 2

Political parties are dynamic. Are you trying to prove Republicans are racist? Against states rights?

You name for me the statesman of today's Democrat or Republican Party. They all believe in a strong national government.

If any of them are racist they can no longer do it openly.

There are differences between the parties, but they are dramatically different from the old state vs. national government issues, which included salvery. Both parties pander to their base. That's why they're so easily "tripped up", because most of them don't they don't have core values. They moisten their finger and hold it in the air, or they use your money to do a poll.

Answer 3

Go ahead and report me for not answering your question:

What is your obsession with the south and "states rights"? You ask question after question and just reword your talking points. You will give the best answer to one of your little liberal friends no matter how much the right gives facts and support to their answers.

Get over yourself and put some Deo on John Travolta if he sucks so much.

Answer 4

It is, and they vote against their own interests by voting (R).
Southerners get a lot of their political fervor from preachers, who don't spend much time talking peace, justice, caring for the earth, and concern for the poor. Instead, lots of these preachers seem fixated on their favorite "sin," adultery, in all its forms. I guess that attracts an audience, since none of the other commandments is an exciting taboo. It keeps them entertained, feeling superior, and diverts their attention from serious political issues.

Answer 5

Isn't the demlibs just the old communist party of the now defunct Soviet Union

Answer 6

Check your facts Son -Democrats stood in the way filibustering to the very end to STOP THE CIVIL RIGHTS AMENDMENT!!!!

Answer 7

Only the lib Robert KKK Byrd Wrong party dude Go read some more history

Answer 8

More or less yes. The more things change, the more they stay the same eh?

Answer 9

Why is Byrd still in office? He's a Dem, ya know? Why do you people INSIST on reelecting him? Are you racists, or what? Please tell!!!! :)

Answer 10

Are Dems socialists or Al Qaeda or communists?

Byrd didn't help lynch any blacks. Right?

Biden's comment about Obama sure seemed racist. Sad