Prager U: Why Did the Democratic South Become Republican? (video)

22 Friday Sep 2017

Posted by bydesign001 in Government, Progressives war on America

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Democrats, myth, Politics, Progressive Revisionist History, Progressives, racism, republicans, South, The Southern Strategy

Setting the record straight.

Published on Jul 24, 2017 by PragerU

The south used to vote Democrat. Now it votes Republican. Why the switch? Was it, as some people say, because the GOP decided to appeal to racist whites? Carol Swain, Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, explains.

Cross-posted on Wow! Magazine.

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Brittius said:

September 22, 2017 at 4:11 am

Reblogged this on Brittius.

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karllembke said:

September 24, 2017 at 1:26 pm

I recently encountered an example of the sort of opposition being raised to this topic. I think the rant was written in response to this video, or possibly to the discussion thereof on Dennis Prager’s show.

Gosh, but Lyndon Johnson was a Democrat. How could that possibly be? According to that new ad campaign by Dennis Prager, a major conservative broadcaster and blogger, only the Republicans have ever sponsored or promoted Civil Rights legislation. He even paid an African American woman to say so in the commercials, so it must be true, right?

Seriously, there’s a really weird disinformation campaign going on right now. The basis for Prager’s comments is that in the 19th century, the Democrats were the bad guys in terms of civil rights for African Americans, so they must still be. Somehow, ignoring the entire 20th century in political analysis seems odd, but that’s what he’s doing. He skips over the whole period of time, including the part after July 2nd, 1964, when many Southern Democrats migrated to the Republican Party and to the new American Independent party, because they were the parties that now opposed civil rights legislation. He ignores the entire period of history in which the Democrats became the more liberal of the two parties around the time of the Depression, and remained that way after FDR solidified his position.

I will grant him that, back when the two parties actually talked to each other rather than simply ranting across the aisle, the Republicans of the 1940s did help nudge Truman into finishing the desegregation of the armed forces, by threatening to make it a political issue if he left it unfinished. Also, Eisenhower, in the 1950s, did a lot in support of the Supreme Court’s rulings on schools. But still…

Okay, so maybe Dennis Prager somehow slept through a lot of history classes, and this isn’t really being openly dishonest. That doesn’t explain the other folks jumping in with similar “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength…” ad campaigns. In the state of Georgia, African Americans were sent a phony endorsement pitch, supposedly from Barack Obama, endorsing the Republican candidates…

I would love to see make his argument to this “African American woman paid to say so” to her face, but I’m all out of pop corn.

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- karllembke said:
  
  September 24, 2017 at 1:27 pm
  
  I’m not making this up. PDF of the rant is available on request.
  
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