Republicans, do you believe your party isn't racist?

[tpfkaw]

Republicans are racist, of course, and seek to murder all the world's brown people, but I would like to ask the OP what he thinks of the rampant anti-Cuban, anti-Vietnamese, and anti-Filipino sentiment in the Democratic party.

[tpfkaw]

It is no coincidence that pretty much every white group votes Republican.

Democrats are racist.

Do you recognize this and not care, or do you not even see it?

Racism, as a social system, is prejudice with the backing of privilege. Non-white groups tend not to have privilege in this country, to put it mildly.

Why do you think it is, then, that the most "privileged" white groups (Jews and Northeastern WASPs) are the most likely to vote Democrat, while the least "privileged" (Scots-Irish Southerners, who actually score worse than blacks on most socioeconomic indicators, without the privilege of college admissions or hiring preferences, and with the disadvantage of that it's not considered acceptable in polite society not to be bigoted towards them) are the most likely to vote GOP?

After the Southern Strategy, it's pretty much a joke for any Republican to deny there is a racist element in the party.

So the "Southern Strategy" (largely a myth anyway) is "racist" when the Republicans do it, but not Democrats?  (Carter, Clinton, Kennedy, Stevenson, Roosevelt etc.)

[tpfkaw]

So the "Southern Strategy" (largely a myth anyway) is "racist" when the Republicans do it, but not Democrats?  (Carter, Clinton, Kennedy, Stevenson, Roosevelt etc.)

Myth? You can't just dismiss what is the truth, the Southern Strategy was very real. Of all the Democrats you mentioned, none of them was elected on racial reasons and Stevenson wasn't elected at all. Read a history book, why do you think the south flipped from majority Democratic to majority Republican?

The Vietnam War.

[tpfkaw]

...while the least "privileged" (Scots-Irish Southerners, who actually score worse than blacks on most socioeconomic indicators, without the privilege of college admissions or hiring preferences, and with the disadvantage of that it's not considered acceptable in polite society not to be bigoted towards them) are the most likely to vote GOP?

Resentment.

Hence proving my point exactly!

The Vietnam War.

That is just flat out untrue and I think you know that. History speaks for itself, no amount of revising is going to change it.

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Unlike Bush's disaster in Iraq, opposition or support for the Vietnam War wasn't a partisan issue. There were large numbers of people in both parties both for and against the war.

But Richard Nixon was for it and George McGovern was against it.  In presidential elections, 1972 was the high-water mark for the GOP in the South.  They've never done better before or since.  The sentiment was decidedly more "Okie From Muskogee" than anything else.  Believe it or not, your average white Southerner had and has a greater love of blind nationalism and distaste for "anti-Christian" morals than any sort of convoluted theory that Richard Nixon had a secret plan to undo LBJ's legislation which he publicly endorsed and was perfectly willing to fund in his first term.

[tpfkaw]

This is not true. Nixon was elected on getting the country out of Vietnam, a war, more or less, started by LBJ. He famously campaigned in 1968 that he had a secret plan to end the war.

Uh, yes, that was the 1968 election.  Which was, as some people know, 4 years prior to 1972.  In those intervening 4 years, Nixon flip-flopped rather spectacularly.

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Nope, 1920 (or 24 by far if you add Coolidge and LaFollette together).

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Yes, that was sorta my point.

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First of all, pretty sure that's not true, or if it is then 72 is a close second.  Secondly, LBJ won Southern whites, so it's kind of a silly comparison, like saying that '36 was the GOP high-water mark in the midwest (probably not true, but certainly possible).

[tpfkaw]

It is no coincidence that pretty much every non-white group votes Democratic.

Republicans are racist.

It is no coincidence that plugs are found only on walls.  

Clearly floors and ceilings are electrophobes.


Glad we got that sorted out.

Floor:



Ceiling:



This evidence proves that the Republican Party must therefore be racist.

Well over 90% of plugs are found on walls.  Those are just "Uncle Tom" plugs.