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[–] [email protected] 93 points 7 months ago (3 children)

For those who don't know, In the US, the two political parties basically switched sides at one point. I only skimmed, but here's an article about it:

https://www.livescience.com/34241-democratic-republican-parties-switch-platforms.html

But I'd rather look at what modern people are doing and saying, than muse about what older generations would have wanted or done.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I find it's easier to explain this to people as "Southern conservatives used to vote Democrat, now they vote Republican".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Yeah, the idea of a sudden swap is simplistic. The New Deal coalition included white Southerners and a substantial number of Black people and people who were otherwise prone to being sympathetic to Black civil rights. Certain dynamics protected the spot of Dixiecrats, but the contradictions were just too great for the party to hold together forever. It was a simple matter of absorbing the disaffected Dixiecrats.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

But I'd rather look at what modern people are doing and saying.

We would too but unfortunately fascists pretend that they're not fascist by claiming their political party freed the slaves.

This obviously ignores their bigotry and hate for people of color and distaste for women.... And well, I digress. Suffice to say that these assholes try to claim they're not racist despite all the racist bullshit and hate they spread, and they use this claim as proof.

We would love to ignore it but we can't. Best we can do is inform ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

It's a short source and I'd like to see it also explain some of the racial dynamics going on at the time, but otherwise ok.