Is it true that the democrats have a racist history?

Answer 1

Before the Civil war the democratic party was the party of farmers and plantation owners in the south. The republican party was formed from a coalition of abolitionist and the money interest of the north. After the civil war the white southerners hated the republicans and was a major force in the democratic party until after WWII when the party in the north stated to favor civil rights and the coalition or northern labor and white southerners began to fracture. The split became permanent when Johnson backed the civil rights movement in the 1960's. Nixon took advantage of the split and developed a southern strategy to build a republican majority , and now white southerners are the most reliable Republican voters. Black who voted republican when they were allowed to vote , voted republican in the south but in the north split the vote after 1930, and since 1960's have been the most reliable democratic voters. It should be noted that in 1860 almost all whites in America were racist, even Lincoln. in the sense they did not believe that blacks were their equals.

Answer 2

Yes it's true. The Republican Party originally was founded to abolish slavery. However you should realize that they didn't want freed black slaves to become citizens, they wanted to establish 'reservations' for them, like with Indians, or to send them back to Africa. So they were racist too in their own way.

After the Civil War, the leaders of the KKK were Democrats. And the Democratic Party held the South for another 100 years because nobody down there wanted to vote for the party of Lincoln. But the Southern Democratic Party was almost a different party, in fact in the 1940s they tried to split off as the 'Dixiecrats' but weren't able to.

Also during the time of the growth of unions, unions were very racist and anti-immigrant; they wanted to save the best jobs for whites and American-born. And the Democrats were the party of Unions.

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All that being said, since about the 1890s the Republicans have been the party of racism. In that time they have been against civil rights, voting rights laws, anti-immigrant, etc. They've encouraged every kind of intolerance--racism, homophobia, nativism and xenophobia, and religious intolerance. I think they bring out the very worst in Americans. In the last few years they've built illegal immigration into a huge issue--not to say that it's not an important issue but it's much more complicated than they way they talk about it. They've made it a big issue only to exploit it.

Answer 3

They do in part, but I wouldn't lay the wrap on the whole party.

Southern democrats harbored racism for a long time and it came to a head in the 60s beginning with the murder of Metger Evers in Mississippi.

Southern states used to be all democrat, now they're mostly republican.

(Today, democrats aren't really racist, they're race baitors because they've found that they can use racism like a baseball bat to pound on people and extort sympathy, payments and power, and they can also use it to mask their own behavior. Remember Cynthia McKinney? She tried to get through a security checkpoint in Georgia and was tackled by the guard, and she claimed it was racist for him to do it? She was a democrat congresswoman.)

Answer 4

Hardly. If you recall,it was a Democratic president who signed the Civil Rights Bill, and it was Democratic president who recognized the State of Israel in 1946.

Answer 5

Before FDR and L B J almost all blacks were Rep,as they say follow "the money trail"

Answer 6

This COUNTRY has a racist history.

Answer 7

George Wallace was their hero.

Answer 8

No.

If they did, Obama wouldn't be running.

Tell me something though: Have you ever SEEN a black man run on the GOP Presidential ticket before? Or a woman?