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denem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 09:48 AM
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Teabaggers - These people would have been Democrats 60 years ago (1950s)
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No, not all of them, but most, I suspect:



As indeed was Ronald Reagan. Then came civil rights and Medicare.
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S_E_Fudd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 09:52 AM
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1. There was a deep schism in the Party...
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You are referring to the predominantly southern part of the Democratic Party...a legacy of the confederacy before they were wooed by the Republican Party...

It was 60 years ago (ok 61) that Hubert Humphrey made his famous speech at the Democratic convention that drove Strom Thurmond and the Dixicrats from that convention...
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denem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 09:54 AM
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3. In the 1950s (60 years ago), the Dixiecrats were mainstream Dems.
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S_E_Fudd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:25 AM
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6. Things were switching rapidly....
We had the rise of Adlai Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey, the Kennedy's etc.
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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 11:30 AM
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7. That's not entirely true.
They were "mainstream" in the south. They were reluctantly tolerated in the north in order to win national elections.
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 09:54 AM
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2. Johnson said, signing the Civil Rights Act
would hurt Democrats for at least the next generation. Sometimes you have to do the right thing no matter the cost. Like Health Care Reform.
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denem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 09:56 AM
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4. Johnson knew the South. One of the most principled decisions ever.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:24 AM
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5. Good old Lester Maddox
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