Sheldon Cooper
1/25/2011 11:52:00 PM
On Jan 25, 7:11 am, Yoorg...@Jurgis.net wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:21:07 -0800 (PST), Sheldon Cooper
>
> <richarddead...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >18 of that 20 remained Democrats.
>
> That's nonsense of course--
No, it's an historical fact.
> and it does not negate the fact (and truth)
> that their IDEOLOGY remained conservative (except Byrd).
"Except Byrd"? Byrd when on CNN a few years before his death and
blathered on condemning "white niggers".
Here's most of the Dixiecrat Sentors.
18 of the 20 remained Democrat the rest of their careers.
(D)VA Harry F. Byrd, 1933-1965
(D)VA A. Willis Robertson, 1946-1966
(D)WV Robert C. Byrd, 1959-
(D)MS John C. Stennis, 1947-1989
(D)MS James O. Eastland, 1941-1941,1943-1978
(D)LA Allen J. Ellender, 1937-1972
(D)LA Russell B. Long, 1948-1987
(D)NC Everett Jordan,
(D) SC Olin Johnston,
(D) Georgia - Richard Russell,
(D) Georgia - Herman Talmedge
(D) Alabama - Lister Hill,
(D) Alabama - John Sparkman
(D) Arkansas - John McClellan,
(D) Arkansas - William Fulbright
(D) Florida - Spessard Holland,
> There is a reason they "remained democrats"
Because they agreed with the Democrats.
>(for a time)--->
The bime being THE REST OF THEIR LIVES
it was
> because the entire southern conservative electorate associated the
> demise of slavery and segregation with Republicans and liberals--and
> therefore could not be elected (in the south) unless they were
> democrats.
Here's the truth.
The Democrats were racists.
The Democrats ARE racist. The fact that they swapped what racist the
hate doesn't make them any less racist or hateful.
YOU are a hate monger. YOU are one of the most hateful people on
Usenet.
You hate members of the Tea Party and whites and conservatives with
the same passion that your parents hated blacks.
You hate FOX News
You hate Rush Limbaugh.
You're a hate monger.
You desperately want to blame
> The shift from democrat to republican came AFTER the Mid 60's--when
> enforcement of the CRA began in earnest, enforcing integration, the
> passage of LIBERAL/PROGRESSIVE legislation to end discrimination and
> the ENFORCEMENT of the law.
What also happen in the mid 60s, 70s, and 80s?
THE NORTHERN REPUBLICANS MOVED SOUTH.
When the Democrats controlled the South, you had you had segregation,
you had terrible behavior.
Since the Republicans took over the south, there were no
segregation.
Now, you can pretend that, in modern Atlanta, there's still "colored
only" rest rooms if you like - but please don't insist that I indulge
your fantasy.