County GOP auctions rifle to honor MLK

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Discuss the issues, not each other.

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(Grumpy because I'm having to post from my backup computer.)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Discuss the issues, not each other.

They mostly are.

When I post that reminder, it's because I just got done deleting posts in which people weren't.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

the only thing outrageous about this is that they think MLK was a Republican.

MLK Jr. never did express a personal preference one way on the other.  Yet I think it would not be unfair to say that up till around 1960, his inclinations were towards the Republicans. However the maneuvers both parties took on civil rights meant that he likely was Democratic in sympathy by the end of his life.  Hence it would make as much sense for Republicans to claim MLK as it would for the Democrats to claim Reagan because of his political preferences early in life.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

the only thing outrageous about this is that they think MLK was a Republican.

MLK Jr. never did express a personal preference one way on the other.  Yet I think it would not be unfair to say that up till around 1960, his inclinations were towards the Republicans. However the maneuvers both parties took on civil rights meant that he likely was Democratic in sympathy by the end of his life.  Hence it would make as much sense for Republicans to claim MLK as it would for the Democrats to claim Reagan because of his political preferences early in life.

By most of his writings, he was a democratic socialist.

And in the South of the 1950s, which party would come closer to that? The Republicans or the Dixiecrats?  The Republicans hadn't yet put African-Americans completely under the bus in their quest to pick up the votes of southern whites.