by KaiserJeep » Tue 16 Jul 2019, 03:47:03
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lpetrich', 'U')nhistorical bullpoop yet again. The Democratic Party had long included the Dixiecrats, the Southern branch of the party. But when the Northern Democrats started talking about civil rights, the Dixiecrats left the party and became Republicans. That is why the Republican Party is now the party of Jefferson Davis.
From
Membership of the 116th Congress: A Profile, I find
- Female: House: D 89, R 13, tot 102, Senate: D 17, R 8, tot 25
- Black: House: D 52, R 1, tot 53, Senate: D 2, R 1, tot 3
- Hispanic: House: D 35, R 7, tot 42, Senate: D 2, R 3, tot 5
- Asian/Pacific-Island: House: D 16, R 1, tot 17, Senate: D 3, R 0, tot 3
- Native American: House: D 2, R 2, tot 4, Senate: D 0, R 0, tot 0
This is not what one would expect from the hypothesis of Republicans always good, Democrats always bad. It is also not what one would expect from the hypothesis that the present-day Democratic Party is the party of the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK would be asking what are all those non-honkies doing in the party.
I don't have such a hypothesis, nor did I express such. My remarks were about the settled History of the Democratic Party during the Reconstruction through the Civil Rights era. This is not subject to debate, I remember the Civil Rights era, and I am certain that KKK membership was required of D politicians before the 1960 election.
That is not the present D party and I never said it was. I only said that D's need to acknowledge a shameful past. I am curious as to why you feel it necessary to rewrite history.