Getting Out the Base (GOP Style)

[winasteussy]

Impressive...double majors. Credentials, a college grad. Just wondering as to what school them thar majors was obtained at...

[TonyKaku]

Don't go where? In to history to see that the Dixiecrats left the Democratic Party for greener, more racist pastures in the Republican Party? Uh, if you insist. We won't go there, Mr Double Major.

[roblrich]

Don't go there, I was double major (Political Science/History). Strom Thurmund was not driven out but left the party in disgust with others and created a democratic splinter group called the "Dixiecrats". Since the civil rights movement, liberals have done nothing but made minorities dependent on Govt. But then, FDR, a democrat, made the USA a welfare state.

[roblrich]

Wasn't Abe Lincoln a Republican? Yea, thot so. Wasn't George Wallace a democrat? Yea, thot so.

[patriotboy1]

Sure enough. The Northern Republicans of the 1860s and the Southern Democrats of the 1860s are no more. Most of the latter--people like Strom Thurmond--were driven out of the Democratic Party after its liberal wing pushed through civil rights legislation. They became the Republican base in the South. It's too bad you're too ignorant of history to understand this.

[roblrich]

Haha, dude, I was a double major. History/Political Science. Don't even go there...Thurmond left the democratic party on his own and became a "Dixiecrat". Read up on your own history and study that democratic splinter group. democrats have done nothing but made minorities welfare dependent (FDR a democrat made USA a welfare state).

[bricitybrac]

Don't ask yourself if Lincoln was a Republican or Democrat. Party philosophies change over time and we all know a name is just a name. Ask yourself if the idea of abolition, one which you are trying to attribute to the Republican conservative party of today, was considered conservative or liberal at the time. I think you'll find it was VERY liberal. Now ask yourself why a conservative Republican would want to take credit for a liberal idea.

[highhorse313]

Yee haw!

[Leigh098]

Superb, mon generale!

[FGFM]

I was thinking that it would be nice to get some film footage of those Klansmen driving around DC back in the teens (if any exists), but those jokers riding around in the sedan were very impressive!