Comment by rayiner
5 years ago
So your theory is that "racists" left the DNC because it "took a stand for civil rights" and decamped to the party that had taken a stronger stand for civil rights for the 100 years preceding that? How does that make sense?
You are also not really correct in claiming that "later GOP close victories all relied on the previous southern democrats." The 1976 Carter-Ford election was pretty close, with Carter winning by 2% overall. In North Carolina, Carter won by 10 points, while he won New York by less than 5 points. Regan won North Carolina by 2 points and New York by 3 points 1980.
It's no doubt that Republicans gained a decisive advantage in the south eventually, but that happened decades later.
Again you are cherry-picking data and ignoring the bigger picture. The fact that you are able to do so means that you are just a troll and I will not comment further after this post.
Yes Carter had a larger margin in some souther states, he was also a souther politician. But this is not what I said. Close GOP victories relied on the south. These are the close elections after this period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidentia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_presidentia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia...
Also if you look at the election during this time Johnson won every state except from the south: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_United_States_presidentia...
Also, please no "racist" when it comes to Dixiecrats. Read up on for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Russell_Jr. and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond The might not agree with the racist label but openly believe the white race is superior and would clearly today be called a racist.
You crossed into breaking the site guidelines here. Please don't do that regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. It just makes the thread even worse.
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You’re pointing to elections that happened more than three decades after the Civil Rights Acts of 1957-1968. That doesn’t support your point that the parties’ positions in the Civil Rights Acts was critical to those results. Couldn’t it be that those results are the product of things that happened during the 1990s, such as Democratic support for affirmative action?
As to the scare quotes, I’m using them because you’re using the term to refer to people who voted for Bush, it just Storm Thurmond.