We talked about this over a year ago, but since it continues to come up from time to time, let’s set the record straight again.



The Democratic Party, in the first half of the 20th century, was home to two broad, competing constituencies – southern whites with abhorrent views on race, and white progressives and African Americans in the north, who sought to advance the cause of civil rights. The party struggled with this conflict for years, before ultimately siding with an inclusive, liberal agenda.



As the party shifted, the Democratic mainstream embraced its new role. Republicans, meanwhile, also changed. In the wake of Democratic President Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act, the Republican Party welcomed segregationists who no longer felt comfortable in the Democratic Party. Indeed, in 1964, Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater boasted of his opposition to the Civil Rights Act, and made it part of his platform.



It was right around this time when figures like Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond made the transition – leaving the progressive, diverse, tolerant Democratic Party for the GOP.



In the years that followed, Democrats embraced their role as the party of inclusion and civil rights. Republicans, meanwhile, became the party of the “Southern Strategy,” opposition to affirmative action, campaigns based on race-baiting, vote-caging, discriminatory voter-ID laws, and politicians like Helms and Thurmond.



The contemporary argument from the right isn’t entirely baseless – Southern Democrats were, for generations after the Civil War, on the wrong side.



The problem, however, is with the relevance of the observation. Which matters more in contemporary politics: that segregationists were Southern Democrats or that segregationists made a new home in the Republican Party in the latter half of the 20th century?



Democrats have no reason to sweep this history under the rug: they eventually got it right, and dispatched the racists to the GOP, which welcomed them in the party fold and slowly turned the Deep South into the party’s strongest region. Indeed, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee conceded just a few years ago that his party deliberately used racial division for electoral gain for the last four decades.



If history ended in the 1960s, Fund and his allies may have a slightly more legitimate point. But given what we’ve seen over the last half-century, the more salient point is that Democrats have been part of the solution, not part of the problem, on race.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-real-party-civil-rights

Fact 1: no one from the sixties on, has owned slaves

Fact 2: 1860s occurred before 1964

Fact 4: The KKK was created by confederates, who were largely democrat BEFORE 1964

Fact5: The fifteenth amdendment was passed in the 1800's, long before 1964

Fact 6: The freedman act is also from the 1800s , long before 1964

Fact 7 : THough republicans supported the civil rights bill by larger percentage than democrats 80% to 63% in the house and 82% to 69% in the senate, both parties had more for than against,,,and it was regional differences that accounted for the gap,,,

with union votes outpacing confederate in the house and the senate
90% to 8% in the house and 92% to 5% in the senate



backing up the point, that the correlation to civil rights support wsa divided by region, and when the confederate region moved to support republicans after Goldwater,,,the democratic party began to separate from southern ideology

Comon Wine, you act like there was present day gridlock, back then In1964. Republicans did this by themselves??? It was a united decision. Comon your Macharthyisim is showing. Why is Trump down in the poles? case he has been lazy. Now his VP is theating walking.... Do you think he will stop acting like he's off his riddlin?

no Wine


the civil rights issues were aligned unsurprisingly with the union vs the confederacy

when confederates, previously known as dixiecrats, took their vote republican, it cause a great shift in political alignment

the dixiecrats that swung democrats against 'liberal' stances were no longer around,, so the DEMOCRATS began swinging more and more towards liberal stance instead

He is down in pole because of the slanted left media slamming him while they let Hillary walk...as for V.P walking...another ridiculous rumor by the left wing media....give me a break

Actually Ms Harmony the progressives of the early 20th century were behind the eugenics movement.

They hated blacks.. they hated slavs.. they hated catholics.

They hated anyone that was poor..

You do know that Woodrow Wilson was the one that re-segregated the military right?

Was he a southern democrat?

Northern states like Indiana were home to the largest klan memberships during the 1920's.

Take a look at this link... The truth is painful

http://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=11704

Just one more tibit about the level of racism of Dems...
After bills were introduced by republicans to ban lynchings, A white democrat racist name Margaret Sanger came up with the brillant plan to get rid of Blacks by sterilizing them and killing their babies. This was first known as the Negro Project.
She opened clinics exclusively in Black neighborhoods to "lynch" blacks before they grow up.
It later became the American Birth Control League and then Planned Parenthood.
One of her famous quotes(or infamous) is:
"Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated."

Just another example of how even to this day Hillary praises her and her work she did....pretty disgusting

Let me see if I got this straight: Maddow claims that, after the GOP promoted civil-rights legislation, racist Democrats decided to join the GOP.

What is wrong with this picture?

Let me see if I got this straight: Maddow claims that, after the GOP promoted civil-rights legislation, racist Democrats decided to join the GOP.

What is wrong with this picture?

Everett McKinley Dirksen (January 4, 1896 – September 7, 1969) was an American politician of the Republican Party. He represented Illinois in the House of Representatives (1933–1949) and the Senate (1951–1969).

As Senate Minority Leader for a decade, he played a highly visible and key role in the politics of the 1960s, including helping to write and pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and that of 1968, both landmarks of civil rights legislation.
The party is named after republicanism, the dominant value during the American Revolution. Founded by anti-slavery activists, modernists, ex-Whigs, and ex-Free Soilers in 1854, the Republicans dominated politics nationally and in the majority of northern States for most of the period between 1860 and 1932.


Democrat.


Democrat.

so, which party has changed it's stripes?

both

democrats lost the vote and loyalty of dixiecrats

republicans welcomed them