100 years ago, in 1924, the Democratic Party Presidential nominee

[SocialDemocrat61]

was John W. Davis. He was a democrat from West Virginia who opposed women’s suffrage, child labor laws, anti-lynching laws, and later the New Deal, while supporting poll taxes in southern states.

I wonder what his reaction would be to Harris being the Democratic candidate now. 🤣

[Biophilic]

1. Thank heavens the party has changed radically since then. Nt

[RidinWithHarris]

2. Republicans adopted most of our bigots starting in the 1960s

Good for the moral compass of the Democratic party, tough on the voting power of the Democratic party.

[LeftInTX]

3. Strom Thurmond was a Democrat until 1964

That's why I get irked when I hear, "We were a blue state until...."

Well Texas was Democratic, but it was not progressive. Then there was a transition period from 1965 until 1980. Many southern states actually were moderate during this time because not everyone switched parties at once.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. He would be a Republican today.

[SocialDemocrat61]

6. He'd be a MAGAt today

Probably Trump’s running mate. Lol

[Sneederbunk]

5. Then there was Theodore Bilbo.

[Silent Type]

7. Early Dixiecrat. He'd be a GOPer today. Later Dixiecrats were racists who were glad grandma/pa got Social Security

rather than starving to death on the old dirt farm.

I mean, heck, even FDR allowed segregated military, etc.

[jacksonian]

8. Result of a brokered convention

It took 103 ballots to pick him. The convention took 2 weeks.

At Madison Sq Garden in NY, funny story - on day 1 a speaker released real doves of peace as a dramatic gesture. The birds had no way out of the Garden and spent the whole time in the rafters doing what birds do.

[marble falls]

9. It's been a problem, a truly American problem, from the founding ...

The military was segregated until Truman issued an executive order to end it in 1948, but wasn[t enacted until the mid-fifties.



The Racist Legacy of Woodrow Wilson

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/wilson-legacy-racism/417549/

Students at Princeton University are protesting the ways it honors the former president, who once threw a civil-rights leader out of the White House.
By Dick Lehr

AP
November 27, 2015

The Black Justice League, in protests on Princeton University’s campus, has drawn wider attention to an inconvenient truth about the university’s ultimate star: Woodrow Wilson. The Virginia native was racist, a trait largely overshadowed by his works as Princeton’s president, as New Jersey’s governor, and, most notably, as the 28th president of the United States.




It's a very dark and surprising research.

As president, Wilson oversaw unprecedented segregation in federal offices. It’s a shameful side to his legacy that came to a head one fall afternoon in 1914 when he threw the civil-rights leader William Monroe Trotter out of the Oval Office.

Trotter led a delegation of blacks to meet with the president on November 12, 1914, to discuss the surge of segregation in the country. Trotter, today largely forgotten, was a nationally prominent civil-rights leader and newspaper editor. In the early 1900s, he was often mentioned in the same breath as W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. But unlike Washington, Trotter, an 1895 graduate of Harvard, believed in direct protest actions. In fact, Trotter founded his Boston newspaper, The Guardian, as a vehicle to challenge Washington’s more conciliatory approach to civil rights.

Before Trotter’s confrontation with Wilson in the Oval Office, he was a political supporter of Wilson’s. He had pledged black support for Wilson’s presidential run when the two met face-to-face in July 1912 at the State House in Trenton, New Jersey. Even though then-Governor Wilson offered only vague promises about seeking fairness for all Americans, Trotter apparently came away smitten. “The governor had us draw our chairs right up around him, and shook hands with great cordiality,’’ he wrote a friend later. “When we left he gave me a long handclasp, and used such a pleased tone that I was walking on air.” Trotter viewed Wilson as the lesser of other political evils.

-snip-

[Palpatine]

10. In the early 1960s

one of the Kennedys, I think it was a woman, remarked, "I would hate to have to explain to a foreigner the difference between Democrats and Republicans." In those days the difference was more tribal/regional than ideological -- each party had liberal and conservative wings. Generally speaking the Dems were the party of the working man and the Pubs were the party of the business man, but even that minimum would require considerable qualification. But when the Dems decided to get behind the black civil rights movement, that began a decades-long process in which the parties were re-sorted along ideological lines.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. That's why my grand daddy

And his father were Republicans. Don't forget what a foaming at the mouth racist Woodrow Wilson was.

Educated, land owning/business owning black folks who could vote in the South . . . did not vote Democratic a hundred years ago.