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[quote=takoma][quote=Anonymous]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]
Jeff will probably post a link. [Make that "has posted"]  Meanwhile, some thing you might Google is Hubert Humphrey's speech at the Dem Convention in 1948, which led to the adoption of a civil rights plank in the party platform and a consequent southern walk-out and the Dixiecrat candidacy of Strom Thurmond, who later led many of his collegues into the GOP.

Then you can Google Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy, which seized on the south's negative reaction to civil rights to cement the movement of the once solidly Democrat south to the GOP.

It's not so much anything racist that the GOP did, as of image -- just as the Dems have not done all that much in recent decades for blacks, and yet the parties still foster the image that if you're black, you belong with the Dems and if you resent blacks, you belong with the GOP.

And please don't attack me for accusing all Republicans of being racists -- that's not the same as saying that the GOP leadership jumped at the chance of getting the votes of those who resented black progress any more than it would be to say that all Dem are black because the Dem leadership tries to attract black votes.[/quote]

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