The "Big Switch" is a Big Pitch

Timothy Birdnow

On Facebook a fellow I happened to know from grammar school picked a fight (with another old school chum) over the "Southern Flip" by racists in the Deep South to the GOP. That is an old canard but this fellow (no doubt a good union man, as were almost all of the blue collar kids I grew up with) has bought it as Gospel. Here are his comments, and my rebuttal:

I think you know history and realize that the Republican and Democratic party basically switched platforms in the 1960's If you didn't you should do a little reading so you understand history.

I do not know your level of education or if either of you have taken any political science classes. Heather you are almost correct to say "the Democrat party is the one of the KKK, Jim Crow" that was their platform till around 1960 when both parties began to switch their agenda. Southern democrats left that party and became republicans, northern republicans left that party and became democrats. This did not happen overnight it took about a decade. The welfare plantation comment is completely unsubstantiated

Here is my reply:

What proof do you have to that assertion, Marty? That the Democrats embraced the black vote? They already had it; Roosevelt captured it and the black community has been faithfully Democratic ever since - despite the fact that the Democrats are the ones who opposed the Civil Rights legislation, the integration of the schools, etc.

It wasn't until 1994 that the GOP gained a majority of House seats in the South. They did so for reasons having nothing to do with racism and everything to do with a DECLINE in racism - and a new radicalization in the Northern liberal states that was being imposed on a more traditional Southern population.

Do you remember Robert Byrd? He was a high official in the Ku Klux Klan.

Maybe you remember some of these?

"You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent." -Senator Joe Biden

Mahatma Gandhi "ran a gas station down in Saint Louis."

-Senator Hillary Clinton

"I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson

"You f*cking Jew b@stard." -- Hillary Clinton

Just a few quotes.

The Democrats like to push this idea that the racists all moved into the GOP, but nobody ever supplies any evidence.It should be pointed out that the Democrats are the party that supports policies that are horribly destructive to the black community, such as set asides, large welfare programs, etc. which have destroyed the black family.

Here https:// www.wnd.com/ 2017/08/ big-lie-that-dem s-no-longer-rac ist-party/ Here https:// newstalk1130.ihe art.com/ featured/ common-sense-cen tral/content/ 2018-05-01-the-m yth-of-the-repu blican-democrat -switch/ and here https:// pjmedia.com/ michaelwalsh/ 2013/3/29/ history-lesson/ are three essays that largely debunk the myth of the "great switch".

The reality is that a lot of new money came into the South and a lot of new people with it - and there was a general decline in racism there after that happened. Northern racism remained largely intact, but hid itself behind virtue signalling language and passive aggressive "not in my backyard" attitudes. The result is that the Democrats actually became stronger in much of the North as they became the vanguard of racist attitudes.

You might also want to see this https:// www.americanthin ker.com/ articles/2014/ 03/ media_turned_the _south_republic an.html and https:// newstalk1130.ihe art.com/ featured/ common-sense-cen tral/content/ 2018-05-01-the-m yth-of-the-repu blican-democrat -switch/

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