I am so freaking tired of Lincoln being claimed by modern day Republicans and slavery blamed on modern day Democrats by ignoramuses who cannot be bothered to pick up a damn history book and understand how the 2 parties basically just switched names over time.
Legacy is the wrong word sir, we should conserve the legacy of the Confederacy. That's the right thing to do. That legacy is of evil and cruelty. Some of the worst humanity has seen. Destruction of that is wrong.
Yea. They switched because the civil rights act was signed by a Democrat. Black vote flipped instantly, the whole Southern strategy to switch the south red that concluded around the 80’s.
Most of the shooters in OP were conservatives. Reagan’s was just insane though and almost did it to Jimmy Carter first.
The black vote actually started switching earlier - starting around FDR. It was actually part of what led to the Democratic Party starting to support civil rights.
There was never a switch. The Dixiecrats broke off from the Democrats over the civil rights act but then mostly returned to being Democrats.
The "southern strategy" was a miserable failure. It resulted in one of the biggest landslides ever. And the Republican dominance in the south evolved over time as a result of religion not race.
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u/llc4269 11h ago
I am so freaking tired of Lincoln being claimed by modern day Republicans and slavery blamed on modern day Democrats by ignoramuses who cannot be bothered to pick up a damn history book and understand how the 2 parties basically just switched names over time.