alt.politics.republicans

Gregg Luze wrote:

> "the_blogologist" wrote in message
> > Ok, just so you know the KKK were DEMOCRATS. And blacks were originally
> > captured and sold into slavery by other blacks. Left wingers like to
> > leave that bit of history out of the books as well. Of course, Democrats
> > reinvented slavery in 1913, but that's another story.
> >
>
> It is refreshing to discuss matters with someone that recognizes that the
> party names have stayed the same since the mid 1800's. The Republican party
> was the liberal party from its founding in 1854 until the 1920's when they
> moved into being the party supporting industrialization. In the northern
> states liberals started to move, during the 1920's, into the Democratic
> party, while in the South, conservatives stayed in the Democratic party
> until the 1960's when liberal northerners started supporting the abolition
> of Jim Crowe laws and the liberal democratic presidents forced southern
> states to integrate and started to pass civil rights laws. The southern
> Democrats, or Dixiecrats, quickly moved away from the newly liberal
> Democratic party and into the Republican party.
>
> The result of this was that the KKK (and the rest of those racist groups)
> left those liberals behind and joined the Republican party, those who
> wanted states to be able to keep spending more on the relatively wealthy
> whites left those liberals behind and joined the Republican party, those who
> were white and did not want to eat with, nor have their children educated
> with, non-whites left those liberals behind and joined the Republican party.
>
> G

That's just WONDERFUL spin!!!!! I could cool my house with that!!