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More crazee in Georgia

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by secretariat, Feb 25, 2011.

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  1. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    It says a lot that someone would feel comfortable enough to say something like this in front of a Member of Congress and members of the public.
     
  2. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Who then chuckles along with him.
     
  3. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    http://www.slate.com/id/2285017/

    These people are voters. The Republicans want their votes. That's why even if they don't encourage people to think Obama is a Muslim or not born in the U.S. they certainly aren't discouraging anyone from thinking that, either.
     
  4. bigbadeagle

    bigbadeagle Member

    The South didn't really go Republican until the 80s. Georgia, for instance, didn't send a Republican to the Senate until Mack Mattingly beat Hummon Talmadge and didn't elect its first Republican governor until 2002.
     
  5. eiregi

    eiregi Member

    must had the white robe and hood out for dry cleaning that night
     
  6. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    That's a class D felony, I think.
     
  7. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Nixon picked up the South after the Civil Rights push by LBJ. Carter did do well in the South in '76 but most attribute that to being from Georgia and an evangelical - he got along fine with many of the conservative Dems in Congress - not so well with Ted Kennedy.
    Reagan swept the South in '80, figure more than a few pols across the state saw which way the wind was blowing and changed parties.
     
  8. ChrisRcc

    ChrisRcc Member

    The "civilized discourse" idea was nice while it lasted.
     
  9. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    So, "Democrats supported civil rights in the '60's, huh? That's quite a blanket statement.

    Who led the filibuster against the Civil Rights act of 1964? Do you know?

    How did Al Gore Sr. vote?

    In fact, how did the members in each chamber vote?

     
  10. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    You are correct, YF -- just as it is correct to cite the Republican label worn by Abe Lincoln. However, that's why Nixon picked Spiro Agnew as his running mate and why Reagan ran on a campaign that relied heavily on racial divisiveness in the South. The Republican of prior generations simply is not the Republican of today.
     
  11. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    "States rights."

    Still worth arguing about.

    http://www.slate.com/id/2178379/
     
  12. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Reagan ran against the incompetence of Carter.

    If you're going to claim that he ran on racial divisiveness, please provide examples.

    And, as others have already pointed out, it took 20 years or more for the South to become solidly Republican.

    By that point, civil rights for minorities was no longer even an issue.

    It was religious & conservative values -- and the abandonment of them by the Democratic Party -- that moved the South into the Republican column.
     
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