How come no one ever talks about the racist democrats aka Dixiecrats?

[Warren Moon]

Dixiecrat - Wikipedia

The States' Rights Democratic Party (usually called the Dixiecrats) was a short-lived segregationist political party in the United States. It originated in 1948 as a breakaway faction of the Democratic Party determined to protect states' rights to legislate racial segregation from what its members regarded as an oppressive federal government.

The Party opposed racial integration and wanted to retain Jim Crow laws and white supremacy in the face of possible federal intervention.

The party did not run local or state candidates, and after the 1948 election its leaders generally returned to the Democratic Party

Dixiecrats who remained Democrats after 1964:

Orval Fabus
Benjamin Travis Laney
John Stennis
James Eastland
Allen Ellender
Russell Long
John Sparkman
John McClellan
Richard Russell
Herman Talmadge
George Wallace
Lester Maddox
John Rarick
Robert Byrd
Al Gore, Sr.
Bull Connor

Dixiecrats who became Republicans after 1964:
Strom Thurmond
Miles Godwin


So much for that trope.

 

[Devilinurear]

Are they relevant?
What are you trying to get at?

 

[Donald Trumps Twitter]

Who?




And how much power do they have today?

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

This sounds like a "democrats are the real racists" thread. The problem isn't liberal or conservative, the problem is white. Very few people believe white democrats aren't racist. A lot of us figured that out when social media became popular, and we noticed how our white "friends" really feel.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Because that's not a part of the narrative to bring them up. I remember when Robert Byrd was a big topic of discussion online about a decade ago

the problem was you just weren't suppose to talk about him and his past: "people change!"

americans are more loyal to the narrative than to truths and reality...you're about to see it in these replies.

 

[Warren Moon]

This sounds like a "democrats are the real racists" thread. The problem isn't liberal or conservative, the problem is white. Very few people believe white democrats aren't racist. A lot of us figured that out when social media became popular, and we noticed how our white "friends" really feel.

I agree with u.

This isn't democrats are the real racists and republicans are not.

This is republicans are obviously racist and democrats factually are too

 

[Geode]

What do you mean no one ever talks about them? They term dixiecrat is used to imply just that.

 

[Warren Moon]

Are they relevant?
What are you trying to get at?

Al gores dad led the racist democrat effort and he became the vp

How is that not still relevant?

 

[Hey_zeus]

This sounds like a "democrats are the real racists" thread. The problem isn't liberal or conservative, the problem is white. Very few people believe white democrats aren't racist. A lot of us figured that out when social media became popular, and we noticed how our white "friends" really feel.

This. The labels are just here to distract from the main issue at hand which has remained the same for centuries in this country. Racism, bigotry, filtered through a system that dictates every aspect of life.

 

[Devilinurear]

Al gores dad led the racist democrat effort and he became the vp

How is that not still relevant?

Didn't know that about al gore dad.
Is he still doing that.

 

[Colilluminati]

Hillarys mentor was a klan boss


We don’t talk about these people because they raised and molded the democrats of now who keep trying to tell us how our future should be .

 

[Tyrantus]

The closer we get to the election the more of these type threads that will pop up, but threads about racist Republicans will be largely absent. Pay attention people.

 

[Warren Moon]

The closer we get to the election the more of these type threads that will pop up, but threads about racist Republicans will be largely absent. Pay attention people.

You obviously can't read.

 

[I Really Mean It]

We have no allies.

 

[Tyrantus]

You obviously can't read.

Well Okay. Can you explain the purpose of your thread outside of the obvious?