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socal2 says
Huh? Welfare queens, yes. Illegal Aliens cannot vote, so they cannot be a part of any voting base by definition. Greedy Unions yes. OWS bridge burning terrorists do not exist - those guys in Cleveland were not OWS and actually planned on bombing an Obama campaign site as well. They are Ruby Ridge types. So Republican base if anyone. Anti-Semites? The Jewish are a strong base for Democrats. In fact, I would wager real money that a majority of Anti-Semites have Republican voting histories.
So two out of five. Not bad if you are playing Ty Cobb's game, but terrible if you are playing Michael Jordan's.
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david1 says
The Welfare queen is a myth, so actually 1 out of five.
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rootvg says
they could impeach him now. what's stopping them?
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YesYNot says
because they fail to understand that in order for a marriage to be valid the participants must be legally recognized as legally able to provide consent.
trees, animals, and minors (in most cases) can't legally consent to marriage.
and personally I have no objection to siblings marrying or kids marrying their parents. state sanctioned marriage is all about financial and legal obligations and agreements. nothing more.
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Piffle. The Jewish vote is one of the most reliably Democratic in the union.
And the Democrats who were racist left the party, to become the base of the GOP. Do you think the Democrats absorbed the Dixiecrats? What nonsense.
I'll grant you that the GOP was once a bold, innovative party on civil liberties. It was back when it was dominated by New England liberals.
The Democrats have never been the "conservative" party per se, but they were a populist party. Populism can be right or left, and the populists and the population at the time enjoyed their racism.
As stated above, the Southern Strategy was meant to breed racial resentment for the GOP's benefit. LBJ played into their hands by throwing his lot in with Black rights.
The soulless Republican party did what it always does, post-Lincoln--appealed to the lesser angels.
Congratulations.
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leoj707 says
The welfare queen is real. But it's a white woman, voting Republican.
(The largest number of people on welfare are white women with children in Conservative districts)
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omgbacon says
That quote pretty much says it all...
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wthrfrk80 says
The only thing it says is that omgbacon is either on a wind up or is a rather sick individual.
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leoj707 says
Fact: The racists in the south were Democrats
Fact: The south were also fiscally and socially conservative
Fact: These southerners didn't switch to the GOP because Republicans were campaigning to bring back Jim Crow in 1964, but rather; these southerners no longer had a reason to vote for the old segregationist regime in the Democratic party since the Democrats FINALLY evolved out of their racism.
I for one am happy that the Democrats were able to catch up with the Republicans and repudiate the Democrat's deplorable racist record. It took way too long though.....
I just will continue to call out the B.S. spouted by historically ignorant (or dishonest) Democrats claiming that the Republicans were campaigning in support of segregation like the Democrats were doing until they saw the light in the 1960's.
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socal2 says
I fixed it for you.
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You are missing the point. As a American there is nothing really to celebrate here. All those people who helped to create the "deplorable racist record" are still around, the did not just vanish in the 60s. They all became Republicans, and the Republican party was more than happy to welcome them.
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Yes, ignore the Southern Strategy. After all it does not fit with your world view and how you image history to be.
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david1 says
Right - that's why OWS members showed up in court to support their bridge bombing terrorists.
"CLEVELAND - Dozens of members of Occupy Cleveland showed up at a Cleveland courthouse to support the five people charged in connection with an alleged plot to blow up a northeast Ohio bridge..........
In all, about 50 members of the Occupy Cleveland group went into courthouse. After the arrests were made, Occupy Cleveland said the five suspects were associated with the group, but they were “in no way representing or acting on behalf of Occupy Cleveland.”
Read more: http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland_metro/bridge-bomb-suspects-plead-not-guilty-occupy-cleveland-members-show-up-to-support-suspects#ixzz1vdFTFxF4
Can you just IMAGINE if a group of domestic terrorists like these OWS punks had ever gone to a Tea Party rally? Somehow I doubt people like you would be claiming there was no connection between the two.
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omgbacon says
What's stopping them, is that it isn't necessary. He's gone.
This just popped up about an hour ago:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/watching-democratic-party-collapse-dixie_645752.html
You'll rag on the source but basically, the story they're telling is the same one we heard right before Reagan won in 1980. The whole southern strategy thing is kicking the libs in the ass again and what started it? Gay rights...just as Dr. Marquette warned us twenty years ago this month.
November will be a slaughter. I wonder what Jerry Brown is thinking right now, knowing how difficult passing a tax increase will be during a period of high unemployment and then seeing how politically unfriendly Congress is becoming to a state that's as blue as California.
This is getting very interesting.
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CL says
The Newt Gingrich sweep in South Carolina made it crystal clear.
Newt played up anti-government and racist sentiment with his "food stamp President" rhetoric and played that crowd well.
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Leoj707 - put up or shut up.
Can you show me evidence all of the Republican politicians that were campaigning to bring back segregation during the civil rights movement or there after like the Southern Democrat politicians were doing until LBJ?
The racists in the south simply had no reason to vote for the Democrat party any longer once the Democrat party finally shed their segregationist politics.
Long before LBJ saw the light, Republican Presidents like Eisenhower was sending the National Guard troops to integrate schools against the wishes of racist Democrat politicians.
But dishonest liberals (and their dominance in academia) have managed to re-write history to project their disgusting legacy of racism on the Republican party.
Bravo!
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Vicente says
And even if it were true, you couldn't do anything about it.
The November 2012 elections will look very much like November 1980.
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socal2 says
First show me where I said that Republican politicians were campaigning to bring back segregation.
Clearly you do not understand the Southern Strategy.
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Yes, and a decade later all those racist politicians became Republicans.
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This is only because just about everyone with a "disgusting legacy of racism" joined the Republican party.
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leoj707 says
Simply repeating "Southern Strategy" over and over again does not mean Republicans turned into the party of racists or supported Democrat policies of segregation.
The Republicans were just happy to have the votes especially since they didn't have to become like the racist Democrats of the 20th century to win the South's votes.
Again, I agree that many southern racists stopped voting for Democrats once the Democrat party officially shed its overt racist platforms of segregation under LBJ. These racists simply no longer had the reliable Democrat racist party and their policies to support, so some of them started voting on other issues like economics and foreign policy.
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/watching-democratic-party-collapse-dixie_645752.html
Delusional, huh?
How about, right on the money.
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socal2 says
No, the Republicans just welcomed with open arms all the Democrats that had a racist history and supported segregation.
Strom Thurmond was a huge racist, right? As a Democrat he did indeed champion segregation. Remind me again when he switched to the Republican party? Was that the time he stopped fighting civil rights legislation?
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I will raise you Strom Thurmond with the longest serving Senate Democrat Robert Byrd and former Grand Kleagle of the KKK. Why didn't he switch parties?
Seriously, just a few years ago the Democrats still had a former KKK member serving in the US Senate.
The biggest racist politicians over the last 150 years in the US were Democrats. Its not even close.
But in Liberal Bizarro world, the Republicans are the racist party because the Democrats finally got rid of their racist POLICIES and racists stopped voting for Democrats.
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Also Leoj707 - how many Republicans voted against or were actively trying to prevent the passage and implementation of the civil rights laws? We have plenty of examples of Democrat politicians using fire hoses and chaining school doors.
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Politicians (and their teams fans?) are what they rail against.
So, when you hear a repuke railing against gay people, safe bet is he likes to do the texas toe tap at the public john
When you hear demtards railing against racism, safe bet is they are the people that always see race first, and personally discriminate against others because of skin color.
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socal2 says
Pre-1964ish all the people (or most) doing that were Democrats, post-1964ish all the people doing those things were Republicans (or most).
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Republicans are smarter about it.
They don't want outright segregation. They are not so brazen.
They just want "choice" and "school vouchers" so their kids can go to the schools on the right side of the tracks, and the other kids can stay on the bad side.
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socal2 says
I must admit that I am not familiar with KKK titles other than "Grand Wizard". He for sure was a racist but Byrd was in the KKK for less than a year in 1940.
Who knows why he did not switch parties, most of the Dixiecrats did switch to Republican. Congratulations you pointed out one that did not.
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Yeah, I totally agree with this. For a majority of the past 150 years the South as been almost exclusively Democrats. Then in the 1960's all the biggest racist politicians decided that the Republican party supported their views better than the Democrats, and welcoming them with open arms the Republicans seem to have agreed.
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Oh, socal you misunderstand.
The Republicans are the racist party because after the Democrats "got rid of their racist POLICIES and racists", the Republicans welcomed all the biggest racists in the country into their fold.
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Fixed for you.
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socal2 says
While it is clever to "fix" a quote, you should use brackets around the fix.
1. It is the proper way to alter a quote
2. It draws attention to how clever you are
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Vicente says
Is that why big liberal Blue States have the most segregated neighborhoods and school districts, while those "racist rednecks" in the South live in much more integrated neighborhoods?
"Milwaukee, Detroit, and Syracuse, N.Y., were among the most segregated, all part of areas in the Northeast and Midwest known by some demographers as the 'ghetto belt,'" according to the Associated Press. "On the other end of the scale, cities that were least likely to be segregated included Fort Myers, Fla., Honolulu, Atlanta and Miami."
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/1214/Census-Segregation-hits-100-year-lows-in-most-American-metro-areas
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socal2 says
There I fixed it again.
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Vicente says
What do all those uber white liberals mean, when they say they want to live in a nice neighborhood with good schools? As if anyone desires a shitty neighborhood with ghetto schools
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leoj707 says
And they did so deliberately.
This is not new information, nor rocket science. New England was once the home of the Republican Party, when that party was a much more liberal party.
The South was a reliably Democratic bastion. They are now reversed. Why?
RINOs no longer exist in New England...why?
Conservative Southern States no longer vote for Democrats, why?
Now, race is not the only issue that decides elections. But for racists it is, and that's why the Nixon folks embraced the Strategy. It is also why Reagan campaigned on State's Rights in Mississippi.
Lee Atwater regretted his hand in it; Ken Mehlman apologized for it on behalf of the RNC.
And Eisenhower was awesome, but he said aloud that his biggest regret was nominating the desegregating Warren to the bench.
Warren was a liberal.
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To shed a little more light on this you can look at the NAACP rating for both of them.
Robert Byrd 93%
Strom Thurmond 20%
http://votesmart.org/interest-group/893/rating/1353?of=rating
I guess ultimately, even with his KKK background, Byrd turned out to be less of a bigot. At least according to the NAACP.
The best a Republican does on that list is Chris Smith of NJ at 67%.
Ultimately our entire country has a hugely racist past, both Democrat, Republican, etc.
50-60 years ago that started to slowly change. As that change happened a majority of the biggest racists (remember the guys and gals who were still pissed that Lincoln freed the slaves) found a home in the Republican party.
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Further, the KKK morphed into the CCC, which is really an updated White Citizen's council.
Trent Lott, and other Republicans have visited with them. Stormfront and the CCC frequently have "articles" about how MLK, Abe Lincoln and others were awful and promote "white power".
They support the GOP exclusively. It is not fair to put a pox on both houses. The GOP carries the torch of right-wing extremists and racists.
The language has been updated to reflect the times. Now, it is State's Rights, heritage, welfare and whatnot.
The Democrats paid a political price for cutting these dead-enders loose. The GOP tried to sweep it under the rug when it was expedient to do so, but couldn't run from it. That's why the party owned up to it, even if the constituents won't.
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CL says
I just wonder if we are ever going to finally hit that dead-end.
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leoj707 says
As white people lose their majority status, there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. This is the beginning of the birth pains.
You see them flail about with Obama in the White House. You see the vestiges in the Tea party.
It's on its deathbed. However, there will always be racists in America, as long as there is political gain in dividing the working class against itself.
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Iwog - the rich landlord with high rents, makes a lot of unearned / rentier income comes here trying to adopt a populist tone and shift the idea that those on the top of the heap steal from the rest of the heap (just like the people they say they are at political odds with) - he thinks we will not put 2 and 2 together. Both "sides" want to use something as powerful as government so they can keep their favorable station in life. You don't see any middle class or poor folks in either party. Just land owning business owning barons using government to cement their stations in life. They want more for themselves and less for everyone else, and either party is smokescreen for that activity. Middle class parent here who needs to send a large part of my paycheck so that people with more than one home (while I have none) can drive the latest BMW.
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The facts on the ground are that if you're a rich guy (or a college kid) you simply are going to have a very very difficult time getting laid AND being a republican. (they are considered jerks by poor hot chicks and 20 somethings which are the same thing really).
So of course I understand why Bill Maher joins PETA and brags about driving a prius - he gets waaaaaaay more hotter chicks than Rush Limbaugh (his republican polar opposite).
Thats how I sees it here in CA.
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CL says
As I told someone else recently, you need to get on a plane and go to Columbus some weekend this September when Ohio State is playing at home. It's not an expensive trip...go to a football game, have a nice meal afterward (place called The Top has the best steak in central Ohio, they've been around for fifty years) and just talk to the kids who work in the restaurants and live in the area. You'll find out really damn quick just how much of a bubble California is.
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That's hilarious.
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rootvg says
Been there, done that. I'm quite familiar with rustbelt ideologies. I have several offices in Ohio and used to travel through there quite often.
Anyway, I'm not sure what you're saying. Is it that racism is not on its deathbed? It's growing? Or that Ohio folks are more racist than I think?
Regarding Ohio electoral projections, I thought you might like this:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-23/obama-prospects-improve-as-swing-state-economies-improve.html