Not to mention (again) that it was a Republican that freed the slaves.
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From: "Jim Mc Coy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 1:25 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: The cycle of democracy


> This is just assinine
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: The cycle of democracy
>
>
> > Jim rants:
> >
> > > I would love to meet a democrat that believes in states rights.
> >
> > As someone who grew up in the South, I know (and probably you do too)
that
> > "states rights" is merely a code phrase for a Southerner's claim to
> bigotry,
> > racism, segregation, prejudice, ignorance and intolerance. "Put God back
> in our
> > classroom and get the niggers out!" (My uncle Dewey, long after he moved
> from
> > Houston to San Diego, still carried a pistol in the glove compartment of
> his
> > car "to shoot niggers.")
> >
> > I certainly hope that no Democrat believes in "states rights." I wish
the
> > Republicans didn't either, but the appeal to these people was the
> centerpiece of
> > Nixon's "Southern Strategy."
> >
> > Prior to Nixon, the Republican Party was the still hated party of the
> Lincoln
> > Reconstructionists -- and no good white Southerner would be caught dead
> > calling himself a Republican. But all of that changed during the Nixon
> > administration. The segregationist, intolerant, bible-thumping
Dixiecrats
> bolted from the
> > Democratic Party en masse, to no one in the Democratic Party's dismay,
in
> > great part because of the civil rights advances foisted on them first by
> > Eisenhower but most especially later by Kennedy and Johnson
> administrations, and they
> > have formed the basis of the "Solid South" on which the Republican Party
> has so
> > heavily depended ever since.
> >
> > Wirt Atmar
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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