Strom Thurmond's Swimming Pool

In 1948, after Harry S Truman had desegregated the United States Army, Strom Thurmond became a candidate for President of the United States on the third party ticket of the Dixiecrat Party, which had split from the Democrats over the issue of segregation. Thurmond carried four states and received 39 electoral votes. His primary campaign platform was the perpetuation of segregation. In this 1948 campaign speech, Thurmond speaks strongly against desegregation, claiming "there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negro [or 'nigra'] race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches."
Thurmond went on to serve in the United States Senate for 49 years, never publicly renouncing segregation.

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[Fma42081]

@numinouslayers I'll Say :)

[sandythebear]

Good ol dixiecrat, and south carolina man

[doczg88]

@tranurse can you tel me county and state? I'm from Europe so I'm curious. You don't have to answer if you are uncomfortable.

[tranurse]

@LibtardDetector that's crap. i don't have a problem with anyone being conservative, if that is truly what they believe.herman caine, shot his ownself in the foot. and he was sold out by his own party, not the democrats.condoleezza rice is brilliant, i just didn't happen to agree with her on a lot of issues. and now for clarence thomas, he is an embarrassment to thurgood marshall. all he does is agree with whatever scalia tells him to.

[tranurse]

@doczg88 born and raised.

[doczg88]

@tranurse are you from the south?

[tranurse]

@toddsmitts oh i know, i'm white. i'm so liberal, my husband says i leave a trail of blood behind me.

[toddsmitts]

@tranurse Well not ALL whites. There have been some progressive southern governors after 1970 like Bill Clinton in Arkansas, Jimmy Carter in Georgia, Ray Mabus and William Winter in Mississippi, etc. Though today in the south whites are indeed predominantly GOP and African Americans predominately Dems. Nor did this shift happen right away. Defections have been ongoing for years. If you look up "Party switching in the United States" on Wikipedia, you can see it's STILL happening.

[tranurse]

the south wasn't a paradise for minorities back in the day. no matter, what people want to say. why the hell did so many blacks migrate up north, if things were so wonderful down here??? i'm sorry, if you pay taxes, fight wars, work, then you have the same rights as everyone else, no matter what color you are. has anyone here remembered that blacks couldn't vote down here until 1965????? and if it took the gov't coming down here to ensure that all citizens were treated fairly, so be it.

[tranurse]

@toddsmitts oh yeah. i figure in the south, all the whites who had traditionally been democrats, became republicans after 1965. and i'm not surprised what reagan said. i would have figured he had better sense to say it, especially there, but i'm not surprised. remember, reagan is the same guy who said he lived in america BEFORE there was a race problem.

[toddsmitts]

@tranurse As the Republican party moved further to the right, the former party of Lincoln began a long history of insensitivity towards minorities (if not the outright hostility Dixiecrats had). In 1980, Reagan gave his first post-convention speech, infamously saying "I believe in states' rights", at the Neshoba County Fair, just a few miles from Philadelphia, MS, a tiny town whose only national claim to fame was being the location of 3 civil rights workers' murders in 1964.

[LibtardDetector]

@TheCaliCapitalist - Very strange analysis and comment. "Despite the fact he was a democrat..." Take a look in the mirror, Cali. Only lily white liberals are capable of such verbal and racial floggings- as recently experienced by Herman Cane, Condoleezza Rice, and Clarence Thomas (to name just a few). In their minds, all conservative blacks deserve the Strom Thurmond treatment. The democratic tradition of racism continues as it always has. REAL diversity is despised by liberals.