CPAC forum on race devolves into hot mess after someone defends slavery

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I am always baffled when Republicans point to President Obama's landslide in the black community as some kind of problem.  What I can't figure out is who the other 1% who didn't vote for Obama are... other than this clown.  Okay I guess some voted for the Green Party, but what about the others?

Would it be a problem if 99% of white people didn't vote for Farrakhan?  Would that be racist... or just common sense?

If this is the kind of stuff you have to say to get into the good graces of hard core Republicans who can blame African Americans for having some dignity and choosing other people to represent them.

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If anything, the more rural, poorer, and older Dixiecrats were the last group of Southern whites to switch to the GOP-not just at the Presidential level, but the state and local levels too.

To this day there are Democrats running unopposed in rural Texas.

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http://www.texastribune.org/2010/10/08/rural-white-democrats-in-republican-sights/

After the Civil War and Reconstruction Republicans were HATED in the South.  Being a Democrat is just a strong tradition down there.  But anyone that denies what happened after the signing of the Civil Rights act is deluding themselves.  That put a lot of southern Democrats in a tough position.  Some stayed Democrats and changed their views and a bunch of others slowly but surely threw in the towel and headed over to the Republicans so they could enjoy the dog whistle politics.

I think a lot of simplistic statements are made and accepted by people who have not spent much time in the South.  Anyone who is honest and spent some time down there knows the deal.

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If anything, the more rural, poorer, and older Dixiecrats were the last group of Southern whites to switch to the GOP-not just at the Presidential level, but the state and local levels too.

To this day there are Democrats running unopposed in rural Texas.

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http://www.texastribune.org/2010/10/08/rural-white-democrats-in-republican-sights/

After the Civil War and Reconstruction Republicans were HATED in the South.  Being a Democrat is just a strong tradition down there.  But anyone that denies what happened after the signing of the Civil Rights act is deluding themselves.  That put a lot of southern Democrats in a tough position.  Some stayed Democrats and changed their views and a bunch of others slowly but surely threw in the towel and headed over to the Republicans so they could enjoy the dog whistle politics.

I think a lot of simplistic statements are made and accepted by people who have not spent much time in the South.  Anyone who is honest and spent some time down there knows the deal.

Oh I agree that the Civil Rights Act drove out a lot of racists and bigots in the South (and elsewhere...) from the Democratic Party, into the arms of the Republican Party (who, of course, did what any opportunistic party would do...). I just think that it's been way over simplified into  "the Southern Democrats bolted the party overnight, and today form the core of the GOP." That has some degree of truth, but really obscures the historical record and the nuances of what happened.

Yes I agree with you.  That's what I was saying.  Being a Democrat in the South was a big tradition.  Nothing was going to change that overnight.  The people people that point to Jimmy Carter picking up states in the South as 100% proof that the Civil Rights Act had no effect are deluding themselves.  The hatred Southern Whites had for Republicans took a long time to die out.  And like I've said there are southern whites who will go to their graves as Democrats no matter what.

It also brings up another interesting point.  Because of the fact a lot of racist whites in the South were Democrats it was not uncommon to find blacks that were Republicans.  A lot of old black people that are Republicans are Republicans because they grew up in the South decades ago.  They are in an awkward position now because the party has changed.  Look at Rod Paige.  Rod Paige is a member of the NAACP and was a dean at a historically black college in Houston.  Not exactly what you would call a sell out.