WaPo: The GOP is no party for blacks, Latinos, and gays

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/the-gop-is-no-party-for-blacks-latinos-and-gays/2012/11/12/ebfecab2-2c73-11e2-a99d-5c4203af7b7a_blog.html

Bolding mine. For a party that wraps itself in the American flag, the Republican Party sure doesn't like what America actually is.

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1964 was the civil war?

Given that it was the Republicans who pushed for the Civil Rights Act and put it into law, this is just hyperbole from the party of slavery. 

Uh...why, then ,is the white South so Republican now? You know damn well that it was a Democratic President who signed the Civil Rights Act, and that many white Southerners switched their registration after that.

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Because Democrats are liars.

Anyways, here's the actual results.

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Republicans were far more likely in 1964 to have voted for the bill than the Democrats. Ergo - the party of Slavery is trying it's very, very best to lie.

How many times do I have to tell you: The Southern white Democrats who voted against  the bill either died off or, in many cases  like Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond, switched to the Republican Party?

You know that many of those Republicans who voted for the bill were Rockefeller Republicans-moderates and liberals who you far-right conservatives would never vote for. Yet you still continue to be deliberately obtuse.

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So you're saying that Democrats are willing to hurt minorities?

where did he say that

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-Lee Atwater.

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-Lee Atwater.

Lee Atwater never said that.  A liberal professor claimed he said that in 1981, but he made that claim in the early 2000s.  If he really said that, then why didn't this professor use it against him then when it could have destroyed his political career?  Even the (very nasty) New York Times obituary written after Lee Atwater's death never mentioned this quote.  And if he did say it, then he was talking about how racial politics in general had become frowned upon.  Pat Buchanan, arguably the architect of the "Southern strategy", said that it was an attempt to convince moderate, pro-civil rights Southerners to vote Republican as a protest against the segregationist policies f many Democrats.  Read it for yourself:
 http://www.wnd.com/2002/12/16477/

This begs the question, where did all these moderate pro civil rights southerners come from, and what had they been doing for the previous a hundred years.

They were the younger generations who were less racist than their parents, grandparents, etc. from the previous century.  It was essentially Nixon's regional, civil rghts version of the "Silent Majority."

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