The Liberal Media Attacks!........ State Schools?!?!

[El Kabong]

Kirkland, what's better ACTING like you care or treating everyone the same?

[Kirkland Laing]

Kirkland, what's better ACTING like you care or treating everyone the same?

Any southern Dixiecrat who signed up to the civil rights agenda knowing it could inevitably cost them reelection clearly was not "acting like they cared," they were actually showing courage. Similarly guys like Thurmond who didn't sign up and instead joined the GOP so that they didn't have to agree to equal rights for coloured folks were not "treating everyone the same."

[El Kabong]

While you are partly correct you are also wrong as well.

Lots of Southern families didn't leave the Democrat Party as they had have a history with the Party and so they just played along and at the local level they really didn't have to follow the National movement.

The KKK was spawned from Democrats

[Kirkland Laing]

While you are partly correct you are also wrong as well.

Lots of Southern families didn't leave the Democrat Party as they had have a history with the Party and so they just played along and at the local level they really didn't have to follow the National movement.

The KKK was spawned from Democrats

Yes, the south was still chock full of racist pliticians even after the civil rights act was passed. But the fact remains that the Democrats supported it and the GOP opposed it. So even though those politicians were still sorry human beings they still did at least one correct, courageous thing in their careers. And the Democrats paid the political p[rice for doing so too, the GOP now being dominant in the south.

[El Kabong]

The GOP are not dominant anywhere right now....in my state we have 1 Republican Senator and only 5 (out of a possible 13) Republican Congressmen.

The ENTIRE eastern part of the state has always been and will always be DEMOCRAT no matter what the national stance of the party....the well to do families have history in the Democrat Party and will not give up their place in the party for anything.

[Kirkland Laing]

That's only because the GOP has made such a disastrous job of running everything when they've been in power. Even your own State voted for Obama. But the fact remains that since the Democrats embraced civil rights the GOP has pandered to racist elements in the south to win elections and done so succesfully for decades. The fact it isn't working so well now is something else entirely.

Southern strategy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[El Kabong]

My state is home to tons of liberals I don't deny it....the city I live in is full up with liberals......but I am not one of them.

That strategy doesn't work well, it never has been super effective here. Jesse Helms never won any landslides and that's all he used