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[one-eyed fat man]

"...what the Democratic party did with those people? WE KICKED THEM OUT OF THE PARTY!"

When? Robert Byrd? George Wallace? Lester Maddox? Dixiecrats? George Wallace carried most of the deep south in 68. Strom Thurmond switched, but most of the old timers (Fulbright, Gore, Wallace, Byrd etc etc) retired as Democrats!

You seem quite annoyed that anyone dare link the racist, segregationist past in this country to Democrats, as that flies in the face of everything they claim to champion, when it comes to civil rights, racial tolerance, etc.

Defensive liberals claim the Dixiecrats, as a whole, defected from the Democrat Party when President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (no thanks to Democrats), and became Republicans which they claimed were more accepting of segregationist policies.

There weren’t many Republicans in the South prior to 1964, but that doesn’t mean the birth of the southern GOP was tied to “white racism.” That said, I am sure there were and are white racist southern GOP. No one would deny that. But it was the southern Democrats who were the party of slavery and, later, segregation. It was George Wallace, not John Tower, who stood in the southern schoolhouse door to block desegregation! The vast majority of Congressional GOP voted FOR the Civil Rights of 1964-65. The vast majority of those opposed to those acts were southern Democrats. Southern Democrats led to infamous filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Like it or not, for well over a hundred years the Klan really was the action wing of the Democratic Party. Joined at the hip like the IRA and Sinn Fein.