@Baldimo,
What do you call a
Democrat who believes in
'state's rights' and vote
GOP 80% of the time?
REPUBLICANS!!!!!!
What you don't know fills history books you ignored in high school.
How Dixiecrats Became Republicans
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I'm still shocked (not) at how many Kansans come here to post on political matters and still don't know about the major shift from Democratic to Republican over civil rights matter and other things in the 60's, 70's, and 80's.
It's a matter of history, a matter of record. You can find it all over the internet in reputable areas. It's just a fact.
I grew up and registered the first time into the old Democratic Party, which was a remnant of the old Dixiecrat Party. They hated blacks. They hated Jews. They hated Catholics. I grew up listening to it. I personally knew KKK members. In fact, a boy I dated had an older brother in the KKK (big time Democrats). That older brother's name is online in articles that talk about the Bogalusa Race Riots of the 60's. He had his white sheet on, with at least a half dozen other KKK members that worked for my father and were at our home a lot. He tried to pull a black man out of a car to beat him up and the black man shot him.
You certainly don't have to tell me about the old Dixiecrats. I lived amongst them.
Today those same people I knew who hated black people and Jews and hated everything about civil rights are all Republicans. They're not JUST Republicans, they're far right extremists.
I get their emails almost daily - emails full of lies about Obama, with caricatures of Obama and his family - and so much more. Lies, hatred and ugliness that is hard to imagine that a person can carry around in his or her heart.
Kansas, do a little research and find out how and when they all switched to Republican after the Civil Rights laws came around.
You think Eisenhower's actions mean that the Republican Party is the one for civil rights because you missed a major shift in politics that happened twenty years after Eisenhower. Btw, today if Ike ran for president, the Republican Party of today would not have him. You know it, and I do, too.
Start your re-education on politics by googling Dixiecrats. I won't do it for you because you need to choose your own source.
Because it was a fluid and changing situation for parties, and really always has been and will continue to be into the future, you won't find it easy reading, but if you are going to talk politics you need to educate yourself to the history of the parties.
Civil Rights laws passed in the 1950s and especially in the 1960s, were championed by NATIONAL Democrats, but caused splits in the Democratic Party. Many in the South switched allegiance to the Republican Party which was seen as more conservative. With Reagan the shift in the South was fairly complete.
We're in Kansas, so you might not think that's important, but surely most of you do know that the base of the Republican Party today is in the south. That's why you lost the last election. Your party tried to put a man in office who is everything the southern Democrat hates. Romney tried, twisting in the wind with one lie today and another lie tomorrow, to appeal to both the southern Democrat (who absolutely represents a huge bloc of the Republican votes today) - while trying not to turn the deep pocket Republicans off. It was a Herculean task. It was like Sysiphus pushing that rock up the hill, only to see it slide back down every time. I don't like Romney because he's more Libertarian than a moderate Republican. He wants a corporatocracy to rule America. He's like Brownback on that.
But that's not why he lost. He lost because too many old Dixiecrats in the south who now belong to the Republican Party refused to go vote for him.
That's a matter of record.
As long as your party harbors and gives sustenance to the old Dixiecrats (and they are, by far, no longer just in the south - Kansas is full of them) - your party is not going to win a presidential race, again. The Hispanics and the African Americans and the Asians have woken up. They know now how important a single vote can be.
Will there be shifts in the future between parties, again? Hell, forget the future. It's happening right now. You've got moderate Republicans all over this country dumping the GOP and registering as Independents. It's only a matter of time that they'll go all the way into the Democratic Party.
Of course, as history repeats itself, in time the Democratic Party will, like the Republican Party has done, get too full of itself - try to go to the extreme as the Republican Party has tried to do. Then the tide will begin to ebb the other way.
What you need to recognize today is that the parties have had a sea change over the last 60 years. None of us belong to the same party that they were when Civil Rights was rearing its head - from Lincoln to Reagan.
It's all different. And from any given year to any given year, you can find evidence of small ebbs and flows in the parties.
As a Republican, you need to ask yourselves, are you happy being a member of a party that rivals the old Dixiecrats and their Jim Crow laws and attitudes? If so, then stick with it all the way to the bottom, 'cause, my friends, you are going down.
http://cjonline.com/blog-post/lucinda/2013-02-05/how-dixiecrats-became-republicans
