So are you honestly trying to justify people who were never enslaved killing people who never owned slaves?
Not even a little. Quote something you feel makes something like that point and I'll be happy to address it.
Also there was never a party change. That's a lie.
Simply and demonstrably mistaken on your part. I think your rushing to the lie business is in keeping with your first and latter comments. You're not thinking your way through this and that's a problem if you mean to have a rational conversation on the point.
I can demonstrate the change I literally lived through and witnessed. Let's do this in a way that's helpful to the youngsters around here. Once upon a not too distant time there was a thing popularly called "The Solid South" (
link) This voting block was important and powerful from the post civil war era until the mid 60s passage of the Civil Rights Act. Wiki actually does a good job on this. To use their quick sum:
"During this period, the
Democratic Partycontrolled state legislatures; most local and state officeholders in the South were Democrats, as were federal politicians elected from these states. Southern Democrats disenfranchised blacks in every state of the former Confederacy at the turn of the century."
Following massive registration and active participation by blacks in that political process the party's segregation and white interest promotion began to crumble. The result?
"Around the same time, many white conservatives began to shift to the Republican Party, which by the second decade of the 21st century attracted most of the white-majority votes."
So the once solid South, overwhelmingly Democratic, the party of Wallace, transformed into the red state bastion it remains to this day.
Reagan, a former stalwart of the Democratic party, commented on the shift directly when he said of his 1962 party shift, "I didn't leave the party, the party left me." What the patron saint of conservatism was noting was that steady shift into a progressive social agenda.
So you're just wrong on the point. The only reason you appear to be holding onto that mistake is so you can launch polemics at the Democrats. Well, I don't think much of either party, but I think even less of uninformed declaration in lieu of a demonstrable grasp of the facts.
The Democratic Party has always been the party of slavery and racism.
That's an ignorant thing to say. Just complete nonsense without argumentative or factual support.
Likewise the Republican Party has always been the party of abolition and equal rights. Refer back to the video.
No, it hasn't, though for a long time the party of Lincoln was fairly progressive on social issues. Hasn't been true for a very long time now, but once upon a time it moved the conscience of the nation out of a national evil. No doubt about that. And I don't come here to be referred to videos. Either you have the facts and acumen to make a case or your don't. So far, you're solidly in the emotionally driven, "don't" column.
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