Breaking: GOP Denounces Confederate Flag. Hoists Giant American Flag On Capital Steps.

[onehandle]

Seems to be missing a few stars though.

[grasswire]

1. Klan??

What year was that?

[Jackpine Radical]

3. 48 stars--

The flag is pre-'59, but the Klan has been living in the past for decades, so who knows…?

[truebluegreen]

31. From the clothes I can see, looks like the late 40s or early 50s--

Brown v Board of Education was in 1954? I think. Could have been seen as an appropriate response by those bigots.

[JHB]

4. August 9, 1925

[IrishAyes]

15. I can't tell you the exact year but

the klan had a huge resurgence in the 1920's. They held giant marches all over the country, so that's when I'm guessing. 1920's.

[Coyotl]

39. And this means they are likely mostly Democrats from the South. Times have changes since Lincoln.

[IrishAyes]

40. Quite possibly most were from the South.

But in the 1920's the klan had literally millions of members nationwide.

[Bolo Boffin]

45. 1920's Indiana had a Klan state government before Alabama did. n/t

[Aristus]

54. Yeah.

Indiana is just basically Mississippi without the Spanish moss...

[deutsey]

47. They had a huge rally in DC in 1925

[Mnemosyne]

2. A group that is assuredly at least two sandwiches short of a picnic. nt

[Bandit]

5. Yep...The Republican Party

[Mnemosyne]

9. RepubliKKKan Party. nt

[Kablooie]

42. It's now the Republican't party.

[jsr]

6. Exciting news!

[jeffreyi]

8. Poifick! nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. Leering Ted: "How do I get my hand over there?"

[Voice for Peace]

49. do you think he has his other hand

on her person?

[Crowman1979]

23. What is Garth Hudson doing there on the left?

reply if you know who I'm talking about.

[BlueStreak]

33. Cross my sternum and hope to die

Uhhh, Sarah, if you have a heart, you will find it a little lower and to the left.

[SunSeeker]

63. LOL. nt

[Iggo]

7. Like yesterday.

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. The TEAOP has no stars, just flaming assholes.

You're welcome.

[rhett o rick]

12. Cute outfits, but so last century. nm

[Ikonoklast]

13. I almost hate to say it, but...

I'd be willing to bet many, if not most of those idiots in that pic were Democrats.

Sorry.

Thank Dog they left the party.

[onehandle]

14. They were the minority of the Democrats and nothing more than opportunists.

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Long, long gone.

[Ikonoklast]

20. Democrats made up the majority membership in the old Klan.

[HooptieWagon]

32. Absolutely true.

Almost all southern whites were Democrats. Almost all southern blacks (those able to register and vote) were republican. That was a hold-over from the Civil War. Civil Rights Act of 1964 switched that around. Thankfully, there are only a few small pockets remaining of the old racist Dems.... we'll be glad when they're all gone.

[HubertHeaver]

51. The pivotal date is actually October,1929. Hoover's lack of understanding

and ineffective handling of the economy exacerbated the crash and deepened what became the "Great Depression". It was FDR and the New Deal that set events in motion that eventually led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I believe it was Dempsey Travis who, during a Chicago radio interview, described it this way. Paraphrased, "After the civil war we rode the elephant. In '32 we traded that elephant for a donkey. We're going to ride that donkey 'til it drops."

[LuvNewcastle]

59. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were progressive about race for their time,

especially Eleanor. She was accused of being a communist, even by fellow Democrats.

[LuvNewcastle]

58. There certainly are racist Dems, but I wouldn't say there were "pockets" of them.

To me, that implies some sort of organized groups, and I don't think there are any organized groups of racists in the Democratic Party. There undoubtedly are individual racists in the party, but if they're supportive of Democrats, they probably at least believe that they aren't racists.

Race is the main determining factor dividing Democrats and Republicans. Whites in the GOP are at least partially there because of the racist tendencies of that party. Whites in the GOP will vote themselves out of jobs if it gives them a chance to fuck over some black people. We've seen it over and over again.

[HooptieWagon]

62. Pockets = small, isolated groups.

There is no connotation of being organized. There are pockets of the old racist Dems in N FL, and Appalachia, and other southern areas off the beaten path. I think these are elderly people who have been registered Dem all their lives, but usually vote Rep.

[SDjack]

16. As an old Lib DEM, I remember shit like this being pulled by the DEMs up to enactment of the

Civil Rights Act. I believe that the photo shows pre-Civil Rights Act Southern Democrats. IF the photo had been taken after July 1964, then the KKK members would be Republicans.

[Ikonoklast]

19. LBJ was correct.

[stillcool]

34. no doubt.

They were all Democrats. Funny how the names change, but the hate is the same.

[Ikonoklast]

38. Back when Lincoln was a Republican, Democrats were the party of Big Business, Wall Street and

the railroads.

Republicans were small farmers and working people.

Lincoln would have been considered a Democrat today.

[ffr]

17. Thank goodness. They've been humbled. DOH!

[Uncle Joe]

18. Kicked and recommended for the ambiguity of symbols.

Thanks for the thread, onehandle.

[SpankMe]

21. Great message title, OP. Thanks.

Funny and tragic at the same time.

[bluesbassman]

22. Never really got how they thought wearing dunce caps was a cool thing...

Stupid is as stupid does I 'spose.

[Berlum]

24. RepubliKKKans (R)

Showing themselves.

[B Calm]

25. Did you know Obama is a black man from Africa?

sarcasm

[shraby]

26. Am I seeing it wrong or is it upside down?

[HooptieWagon]

35. No. Proper protocol when displaying the flag vertically is with stars in upper left.

[shraby]

50. Thanks, I didn't know that.

[RKP5637]

27. And complete with dunce caps on. n/t

[Jack Rabbit]

28. The looks like GOP outreach nowadays

!!

[Frustratedlady]

29. I didn't realize they allowed women.

Maybe they ironed the sheets?

[QuestForSense]

46. That's no woman.

It's Mitch McConnell.

[Madmiddle]

30. The republicans treat

American taxpayers like we're the enemy, when they are ruining our country with their sad governing. Vote all DEMOCRAT in 2014. Send the enemy of the American way of life packing!!!

[AlbertCat]

36. Interesting pic!

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Judging from the clothes, this is the great resurgence the Klan got in the 1920's.

So.... that would make them Democrats, y'know.....



(My buddy and I have been discussing the big change in parties in the 1950's and 60's. It is to the Democratic Party's advantage to remember its past. In the early 20th century, being a segregationist and/or believing black were inferior is not a fringe belief. It's hard for us to fathom, but the "fact" that blacks were inferior was accepted by all kinds of people, not just knuckle draggers.

But times changed

Info on the subject came in

Blacks proved they could be just as exceptional as anyone

And so one party changed. One party when with the times and punched the envelope...especially as scientific evidence as well as morals informed their change of views.

One party DIDN'T change. One party was stagnant. One party had nothing new to offer. Sound familiar?)

[dembotoz]

37. logistically always wondered how they did this without middle touching the ground

flags on football fields.... same thing

[Miss Marmelstein]

41. Plus.....

.....wearing white after Labor Day??

[blackspade]

43. I'm glad they dropped the pretenses and embraced who they truly are....

[tofuandbeer]

44. HA HA! :D ...you got me with that title.

[Hubert Flottz]

48. LMAO...

That's the GOPers alright!

[Ineeda]

52. I've been searching

for a closer or zoom-able image, with no luck. The modern-day images with a similar perspective/angle of the Capitol seems not to have the statues on both sides of the steps. Are they no longer there because they depicted [gasp] nude or semi-nude figures?

[onehandle]

53. Dunno. Here's a shot of them from Lincoln's Inauguration.

Not zoomable, sadly.



http://koloist.com/index.php/2009/01/19/moment-in-time

I know that statues have been moved many, many times in and around the Capitol. I don't remember those in the The National Statuary Hall.

Here's another...



From...

http://galleries.apps.chicagotribune.com/chi-121109-abraham-lincoln-history-pictures/

[Bohunk68]

56. That is NOT a picture including the KKK.

It was started up some time AFTER Lincoln was long dead. By a Civil War General from MS.

[onehandle]

57. 'Them' = Capitol Statues. Which is what Ineeda and I were conversing about. nt

[yuiyoshida]

61. I hope they had great

acoustics back than...because this was long before the microphone! I would imagine the one thing a politician needed was a booming voice..

[Cha]

55. Aren't they

special.

[PCIntern]

60. History simply repeats itself...nt

[SunSeeker]

64. Chilling picture. Thanks for the post. nt

[bluestate10]

65. Why did it take so long? nt

[Pretzel_Warrior]

66. Weren't most Klan members back then Democrats?

Just sayin'...

[onehandle]

68. Many, as mentioned many, many, many times in this thread. Now the GOP Are them. nt

[Pretzel_Warrior]

69. Yeah. I posted my reply and then read down through the list

To see many of my smart fellow DU'ers were all over it.

[libodem]

67. Dunce Caps