When did republicans and democrats switch sides? | |
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Anonymous Cowherder Stop the inanity! User ID: 1368354 United States 08/31/2011 07:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There's only one side to a Mobius strip. Repeal the 17th Amendment and the Reapportionment Act of 1929! Thread: First steps down the road to a return to the Constitutional Republic that we were intended to be. Restore the Republic. Thread: The Bill of Rights does NOT include age requirements! It's a flower, not something to be feared. - Moo! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1529595 United States 08/31/2011 07:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yes, republicans were briefly the good guys, and yes, obviously Lincoln would be a Democrat today. The republicans were ALWAYS the party of business and the rich and the Democrats were ALWAYS the party of the common laborer, going bank to Andrew Jackson. After the Civil War, the bitter South became Democratic in opposition to the Northern Republicans, but over time, the pro-labor policies of the Democrats clashed with the culture of white southerners. When LBJ pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1965 in spite if dixiecrat Democrat opposition it left an opening for Richard Nixon's racist "Southern Strategy." Then in the 1970s the southern evangelical Christians piled into the republican party partly as a backlash to the 60s counterculture. By the time Reagan won the South for the second time in 1984 the Democrats were done in the South. I didn't explain it very well, but that's basically it. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1078426 United States 08/31/2011 08:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | THIS is the core question to understanding American politics, which very few people understand. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1529595 Yes, republicans were briefly the good guys, and yes, obviously Lincoln would be a Democrat today. The republicans were ALWAYS the party of business and the rich and the Democrats were ALWAYS the party of the common laborer, going bank to Andrew Jackson. After the Civil War, the bitter South became Democratic in opposition to the Northern Republicans, but over time, the pro-labor policies of the Democrats clashed with the culture of white southerners. u When LBJ pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1965 in spite if dixiecrat Democrat opposition it left an opening for Richard Nixon's racist "Southern Strategy." Then in the 1970s the southern evangelical Christians piled into the republican party partly as a backlash to the 60s counterculture. By the time Reagan won the South for the second time in 1984 the Democrats were done in the South. I didn't explain it very well, but that's basically it. Thanks for the answer, I get the idea now. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1529595 United States 08/31/2011 08:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | THIS is the core question to understanding American politics, which very few people understand. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1529595 Yes, republicans were briefly the good guys, and yes, obviously Lincoln would be a Democrat today. The republicans were ALWAYS the party of business and the rich and the Democrats were ALWAYS the party of the common laborer, going bank to Andrew Jackson. After the Civil War, the bitter South became Democratic in opposition to the Northern Republicans, but over time, the pro-labor policies of the Democrats clashed with the culture of white southerners. u When LBJ pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1965 in spite if dixiecrat Democrat opposition it left an opening for Richard Nixon's racist "Southern Strategy." Then in the 1970s the southern evangelical Christians piled into the republican party partly as a backlash to the 60s counterculture. By the time Reagan won the South for the second time in 1984 the Democrats were done in the South. I didn't explain it very well, but that's basically it. Thanks for the answer, I get the idea now. I was waiting for your thanks. |