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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
A few facts for you:

-The Republican Party was founded primarily to oppose slavery, and Republicans eventually abolished slavery. The Democratic Party fought them and tried to maintain and expand slavery.

-During the Civil War era, the "Radical Republicans" were given that name because they wanted to not only end slavery but also to endow the freed slaves with full citizenship, equality, and rights.

-The Ku Klux Klan was originally and primarily an arm of the Southern Democratic Party, and its mission was to terrorize freed slaves and Republicans who sympathized with them.

-In the 1950s, President Eisenhower, a Republican, integrated the US military and promoted civil rights for minorities. Eisenhower pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1957. One of Eisenhower's primary political opponents on civil rights prior to 1957 was none other than Lyndon Johnson, then the Democratic Senate Majority Leader. LBJ had voted the straight segregationist line until he changed his position and supported the 1957 Act.

-The historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 was supported by a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats in both houses of Congress. In the House, 80 percent of the Republicans and 63 percent of the Democrats voted in favor. In the Senate, 82 percent of the Republicans and 69 percent of the Democrats voted for it.

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I wrote a long post about this the other day. As I concluded, Republicans can tell a great history of support for civil rights. Unfortunately, it ends in 1964. Then, the racist Democrats left the party to became Republicans. 
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I'd love to see your blog post. And examples you have for the Republican party being so racist over the last 49 years. Anecdotally I have about equal amount of friends, family, colleagues that are Democrat and Republican. The most racist ones I've known are older Democrats. Just my personal experience though.[/quote]

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