This is simply rewriting history to avoid embarrassment. The Dixiecrats, like it or not, WERE part of the Democrat party. Period. George Wallace was a life-long Dem. Most of the others never switched parties during the '50s or '60s or ever. Dems. Dem to the core.
Your party backed slavery.
Every single founding member of the Ku Klux Klan was a Dem. Not a Republican in sight. Not sure you could find a single Republican member in the Klan's entire history.
Jim Crow was 100% a Dem policy.
Most of the legislators who fought against the Civil Rights Act of the '60s were Democrats.
Stop trying to spin it otherwise. That's your party's racist history. And since? Promise minorities all sorts of goodies in exchange for their vote and deliver little of it... just enough to keep 'em voting for you without any meaningful change. Just lots of empty rhetoric. That's your party's shameful racist history. Own it.
Ok. To start, I’m not a registered democrat. So that’s that.
Now, I feel compelled to demonstrate for everyone just how much of a simpleton you are as it relates to this issue.
One has to wonder why you’re so willing to die on this hill of simple minded bullshit?
My primary sources are info from when I obtained a minor in history back in the early 90’s as well as a short but very well researched essay by historian Kevin M Kruse.
After the Civil War and post Lincoln’s assassination during reconstruction the parties began to slow converge on the issue of race.
Case in point, the Republicans let the reforms that began under reconstruction fall by the wayside during the Johnson administration which included pardoning many of the souths leaders. In relatively short order Johnson allowed the rise of Jim Crow and the Klan.
Every Republican on the Supreme Court voted in favor of Plessy vs Ferguson in 1896.
When the Klan made its big comeback in the 20’s (the second Klan which is an important distinction) it did in fact have members of both parties. In the south, Democrats and in the midwest, Republicans and was a nation wide phenomenon.
During the new deal and 1930’s a majority of African Americans began to move towards democrats with Rosevelt receiving 71 percent of African American votes in 1936. In 1936 44 percent of African Americans had registered as democrats while 37 registered as republican.
In 36 the Democrats also changed their party nominating rules to remove the 2/3rds majority rule in terms of nominating the Pres and VP. That effectively stripped the southern states of a long held veto power regarding who was nominated.
In 38 Rosevelt backed 3 more liberal southerners in the primaries against three of the more conservative (racist) senators. The more conservative members held on to win but it was a shot across the bow.
In response to all this Democratic Senator Carter Glass from Virginia asked if southern democrats “will have the spirit and courage enough to face the new Reconstruction era the northern so-called Democrats are menacing with us”.
So for about 10 years during the new deal era the democrats were a weird coalition that had both southern racists and the majority of African Americans.
As per my previous post 48 was kind of a watershed year with the republicans getting creamed yet again nationally while they continued to lose ground with African Americans and that’s when they began to look at ways to align and pull in the Dixiecrats (who identified as their own party and ran Thurmond as an opposition candidate to Truman) and the realignment began in earnest.
