Reply #100: "Dean is technically correct" - NOT!!!! [View All]

[dolstein]

No. No he isn't. Not by a long shot. Blacks in the South did not vote in a significant numbers until 1960's, when the poll tax was abolished and the Voting Rights Act was enacted. Dean claimed that there was a multiracial coalition in the South for FDR's New Deal. But the fact is that (a) few Blacks voted in the South and (b) the reasons why whites voted for FDR had as much to do with long-standing hatred towards the Party of Lincoln than it did for support of FDR's New Deal policies. After all, these same voters also elected some of the staucnhest opponents of FDR's New Deal policies.

Sorry, but your semantic tap dance cannot obscure Dean's profound ignorance of this period in American politics. He should just admit his error and move on.