and estimate the proportion of White people in the mob...hint: start at 99.9%
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Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and The Fair Housing Act in the 60’s. The Goldwater wing (the conservatives) of the GOP opposed all of these. Since then the white south has been staunchly R.
proof....then, if you have a little more left over, read all about the "Southern Strategy"...or just pick up Stuart Steven's book..."It Was All A Lie"...he explains the GOP strategizing behind that switch toward the Racist "Safe Harbor" that is now the GOP.
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that Non-White persons are not welcome in today’s GOP…don’t want to poison their blood.
DJT kicked over a lot of rocks…he certainly knows where to look for votes.
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Americans being Non-White...why is it virtually impossible to find a person of color in the Jan. 6th mob?...hardly irrelevant or a 'non-sequitur'...it is emblematic of WHO the GOP's core are...and why former GOP Strategist, Stuart Stevens, wrote his book, "It Was All A Lie."
...from that book...pg 11...
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"It hadn't always been this way. Before 1964, Republican presidential candidates could expect to get between 30 and 40 percent of the African American vote. Dwight Eisenhower got 39 percent in 1956. Four years later, Richard Nixon campaigned with Jackie Robinson and won 32 percent of black voters. In 1964, Barry Goldwater opposed the Civil Rights Act, and his black support plummeted to 7 percent. Since 1964, no Republican presidential candidate has broken 17 percent with African American voters, and by 2016 only 3 percent considered themselves Republican."
Politics is in many ways a perfect marketplace. Candidates and parties learn very quickly what works and what doesn't and focus time, energy, and money on the share of the marketplace that pollsters tel them is accessible to persuasion or motivation. Since 1964, Republicans have earned that they will have little success in appealing to black voters. It's not that most campaigns didn't make at least some effort, but it was always done with the knowledge that breaking 10 percent would be a significant achievement.
What happens if yhou spend decades focused on appealing to white voters and treating nonwhite voters with, at best, benign neglect? You get good at doing what it takes to appeal to white voters. That is the truth that led to what is famously called "the southern strategy." That is the path that leads you to becoming what the Republican Party now proudly embraces: a white grievance party.---------------
Don't say you haven't been informed ;-)
The dems justified slavery. They owned slaves. They seceded from the United States and waged war against America. They lynched and burned blacks. They raped black women. They hindered Reconstruction.
They supported segregation, They opposed Civil Rights. They were heavily involved in the KKK.
These facts are indisputable.
You are willfully asinine to suggest otherwise.
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in the SOUTH?…you know…the Citadel of Slavery.
The strength of the GOP is in small towns everywhere.
GOP Governors and Legislatures...that fight still goes on.
Don't be willfully ill-informed.
They were democrats as well.
Refute either of those two statements or STFU.
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from the attached Wiki page...
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Before the American Civil War, Southern Democrats were mostly White men living in the South who believed in Jacksonian democracy. In the 19th century, they defended slavery in the United States, and promoted its expansion into the Western United States against the Free Soil opposition in the Northern United States. The United States presidential election of 1860 formalized the split in the Democratic Party and brought about the American Civil War. Stephen Douglas was the candidate for the Northern Democratic Party, and John C. Breckinridge represented the Southern Democratic Party. Abraham Lincoln, who opposed slavery, was the Republican Party candidate.[2] After Reconstruction ended in the late 1870s so-called redeemers controlled all the Southern states and disenfranchised Blacks. The "Solid South" gave nearly all its electoral votes to the Democrats in presidential elections. Republicans seldom were elected to office outside some Appalachian mountain districts and a few heavily German-American counties of Texas.
After American women gained the de jure right to vote after the 19th amendment in 1920, the Solid South began to show some cracks during the Roaring Twenties, but the monopoly that the Democratic Party held over most of the South only first showed major signs of breaking apart in 1948; many White Southern Democrats, upset by the policies of desegregation enacted during the administration of Democratic President Harry Truman, created the States Rights Democratic Party. This new party, commonly referred to as the "Dixiecrats", nominated South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond for president. The Dixiecrats won most of the deep South, where, in Alabama, Truman was not even on the ballot. The new party collapsed after Truman still won the election, and Thurmond became a Republican in the 1960s.
President Lyndon B. Johnson, although a southern Democrat himself, signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. The evening after signing the Civil Rights Act, Johnson told aide Bill Moyers, "I think we may have lost the south for your lifetime – and mine", anticipating a coming backlash from Southern Whites against Johnson's Democratic Party.[3] As Johnson anticipated, this led to heavy opposition from Southern Democrats. However, the Democratic Party had a supermajority in the Senate with 46 of their members joining the Republican Party by voting for, while 21, all conservative, southern Democrats voted against.[4][5] Subsequent to the passage of civil rights legislation, many White southerners switched to the Republican Party at the national level. Many scholars have said that Southern Whites shifted to the Republican Party due to racial backlash and social conservatism.[6][7][8] Many continued to vote for Democrats at the state and local levels, especially before the Republican Revolution of 1994.[9]
By the 21st century and especially after the 2010 midterm elections, the GOP gained a solid advantage over the Democratic Party in most Southern states.[10] In 2016, Republican candidate Donald Trump won a majority of the vote in Elliott County, Kentucky, the first time that it had ever voted for a Republican presidential candidate since its establishment in 1869. In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden narrowly won Georgia, the first time since 1992 that Georgia voted for a Democratic presidential candidate, though Republicans maintained their state government "trifecta" (including in the 2022 midterms). Noted modern-day Southern Democrats include Kentucky governor Andy Beshear, North Carolina governor Roy Cooper, Virginia's U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, Georgia's U.S. Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, and West Virginia's U.S. Senator Joe Manchin. Southern Democrats of the 21st century tend to be more progressive than their predecessors.[11]
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Times change Ara...just as you changed your username...so too did the Southern Democrats become today's Republicans.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Democrats
You are reaching new levels of lame pomposity.
…when they used to score 30-40%…
BTW, I’m not a Republican.
But votes do not excuse your shameful past
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Amazing how much false bullshit that woman's various campaigns shoveled on America.
...but Barack Obama clearly demonstrated that the "born in the US requirement" is no longer relevant. Whether or not people are Birthers, Obama never produced his evidence fully until AFTER the election which in effect rendered the law unenforceable.
It is important to remember that liberals see all people born outside of the US as "nonwhite" though. Then, they project their racist thinking onto others. When libs hear this accusation, they go straight to racism.
From my perspective, it is a fruitless and meaningless criticism of Haley because she was good enough for Trump to be his ambassador to the UN.
It's why I can't stomach the personality... notwithstanding agreeing with much of his last adminstration's agenda.
after seeing Biden's 4 years.
I will actually vote for Haley over Trump in the primary. I would prefer her. But no matter what, I want these ruinous Biden policies to end. The border alone is killing us, much less all of the other incredibly destructive policies. I'd rather deal with mean tweets than a ruined country.
It's much bigger. It's about who we are, and who we want to be.
I would be very happy - ecstatic - if Haley won the GOP nomination, even though she would probably beat Biden handily. I would strongly disagree with her policies, just as you strongly disagree with Biden's. But that is normal disagreement, inside the normal scope of American politics.
Trump is outside that scope, and a danger to the system itself. A vote for him is a vote to weaken the republic, and once it is weakened, it is hard to make a republic strong again.
system has taken over in Washington as the Deep State proved and Chuck Schumer alluded to in his remarks of warning to Trump. The people need to rule this country, not the liberal elite.
I also don't want a president who is on China's payroll and puts the Chinese interests above his own country's as Biden has done.
The Constitution, Rule of Law, our institutions, and our basic democracy, are meaningless to Trump, and apparently to you.
I posted last week:
Let's assume Biden loses in November. Let's further assume that Biden has no meritorious legal grounds to challenge any of the state's tabulation of votes, and/or has exhausted any such court challenges.
I guarantee 100% that Biden will embrace the voters' verdict, congratulate his opponent, and urge the nation to embrace the results. I also guarantee that Biden will direct his Administration to fully assist with the peaceful transfer of power to the next Administration, even if our next President is Donald Trump.
That is what Democracy looks like, Baron. That is what Leadership looks like. That is what we do in America after an election.
Now do 2020. You are part of the problem.
He keeps all of his promises….or tries his very best to when he is prevented.
I still want academics confined to campuses and DEI to DIE.
Decide who you are.
Ned provides ZERO proof for his misinformation…because there isn’t any.
Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/08/22/fact-check-false-claim-boston-hospitals-transgender-care/10340507002/
Even you would probably admit, if forced, that is is not a common practice (and just maybe you are exaggerating your opponents' position).
Don't you agree it says a lot about who they are?
But I suppose you have to cling to something. Cognitive dissonance is a bitch.
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nothing to do with it?! So you’re finally admitting that he is not in charge of his own party. And this goes with not being in charge of his own admin as the Sec of Defense just demonstrated as well.
I prefer the guy I vote for to actually be calling the shots as well. You just added another reason to vote for Trump.
But, deep down, Ned knows, like other Trump voters, that he is an accomplice to the destruction of American values and the rule of law.
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Well beyond disgraceful that one of our two major political parties would nominate him for the 3d time.
But, but…. we like his policies.
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