tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post2378017667700384250..comments2024-03-25T07:29:08.216-04:00Comments on 2 Political Junkies: Jack Kelly SundayMariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10439330154875628083noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-12322341137084428242012-12-24T09:55:14.018-05:002012-12-24T09:55:14.018-05:00Yep, I agree totally, which is why I said Dixiecra...Yep, I agree totally, which is why I said Dixiecrats voted it (Dixiecrat is actually a specific term I use a bit sloppily but I think descriptively). I agree with everything you said (although I believe the Republicans did actively try to recruit the disgruntled Southern Democrats). <br /><br />I was born in the South, my family is all from the South and I will say that *other* people say that people in the South are among the nicest people you ever will meet. That said, there is a dark past in the South, some evil attitudes (which turned out to be shared by some in Boston when busing was mandated). The American people, which in this case is mostly to say Americans of caucasian descent, share this evil history, but Southerners fought once to keep slavery and have a history of fighting against civil rights.EdHeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09109361235271107574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-48311430566569665812012-12-23T11:56:33.170-05:002012-12-23T11:56:33.170-05:00I remember reading an analysis of the "Republ...I remember reading an analysis of the "Republicans provided the margin in the Civil Rights Act" story a few years ago. When you factor in WHERE (from both parties) the support came from, it was the South that provided most of the resistance to that act - Republican and Democrat.<br /><br />Everywhere else, if I recall correctly, the Democrats outpaced the Republicans, if only slightly.<br /><br />And what happened AFTER the act passed? As LBJ said, the Democratic party lost the south for a generation (turns out more) and all those Southern Democrats became faithful Republicans.Dayvoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06971560627535402858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-68469082542211360942012-12-23T11:36:49.359-05:002012-12-23T11:36:49.359-05:00Two things occur to me about this response to Kell...Two things occur to me about this response to Kelly's column. <br /><br />First, Ruth Ann Dailey likes to bring up that it was Republicans who provided the margin to pass the 1964 Civil Rights act, while Dixicrats voted against it. I am fine with that, in fact, it reminds us that up to the seventies the Republican Party was still the party of Lincoln. As I understand it, Martin Luther King's father was a Republican, as were many African American. It was only the pursuit of the "Southern Strategy" that changed the Republican in the at least covertly racist party that it is today. Considering the Republican party has lost the popular vote in five of the last six Presidential elections and is about to cause its second recession in five years, we might ask "how's the racism thing working out for you?".<br /><br />The second thing that occurs to me is the great wisdom MLK showed in trying to stay non-partisan when neither party would entirely commit to civil rights. As I say, at the time the Republican party was still nominally the party of Lincoln, and might have emerged as the champions of civil rights. <br /><br />Of course, what happened instead is that JFK and MLK were killed. Did anyone call for a national database of the mentally unstable back then?EdHeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09109361235271107574noreply@blogger.com