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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Historically (going back to the Emancipation Proclamation), the GOP was anathema in the South, and the Democratic Party was split between the liberal North and the segregationist South.  In 1948, Strom Thurmond split from the Dems and ran for President as a Dixiecrat, and later he led a move of like-minded southerners into the GOP, encouraged by Nixon's "Southern Strategy".

To that extent, there is a racist strain that became an institutional part of the GOP.  It does not represent the view of all Republicans, but whether you call it an exaggeration (as I do), a generalization or an over-generalization to equate the GOP with racism, there is a core of truth.   Those of us who agree on that should probably stop arguing about the terminology we use to express it.

I think we owe it to those Republicans who are honestly dedicated to conservative principles not to tar them with racism, although I do think they should admit that their party consciously courts racists.[/quote]

What?  1948?  Did you know that Cain just ran for president, and Steele was the RNC chair?  They are African-American - where have you been the last 64 years?[/quote]

HA, are you actually PROUD of them???  If THOSE are the black politicians that you are attracting, then you have lost the argument. Sorry dude, that's just embarrassing for you.[/quote]

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