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When did republicans and democrats switch sides?

 
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08/31/2011 07:11 PM
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When did republicans and democrats switch sides?
During the civil war of 1861-1865, the republican party was the one that fought for civil rights and the abolition of slavery.

When did the parties switch, so that the republicans are now clearly the a$$holes and the democrats are the good guys?

I'm not saying I agree with the crazy affirmative action and the victim mentality thats prevelent in the party now, but in general the republicans are the greedy, take care of the large corporations, protect the rich white male party.

Abraham Lincoln was a republican. It's clear that if he were running today he would be a democrat.

When did this change happen?
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08/31/2011 07:19 PM
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Re: When did republicans and democrats switch sides?
anyone?
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Re: When did republicans and democrats switch sides?
There's only one side to a Mobius strip.
Repeal the 17th Amendment and the Reapportionment Act of 1929!

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08/31/2011 07:29 PM
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Re: When did republicans and democrats switch sides?
THIS is the core question to understanding American politics, which very few people understand.

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.
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08/31/2011 08:07 PM
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Re: When did republicans and democrats switch sides?
THIS is the core question to understanding American politics, which very few people understand.

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.
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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.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1529595


Thanks for the answer, I get the idea now.
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08/31/2011 08:12 PM
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Re: When did republicans and democrats switch sides?
THIS is the core question to understanding American politics, which very few people understand.

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.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1529595


Thanks for the answer, I get the idea now.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1078426


I was waiting for your thanks.

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