isn't it ironic that before the great depression...

RobertPlant

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Fri Jun-04-10 10:20 PM
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isn't it ironic that before the great depression...

the republican party, give or take a few states, was the party of the urbanized Northeast and Great Lakes states while the democratic party, again with a few exceptions, was the party of the south and largely agrarian (although agricultural states like KS and NE have always been republican). Its interesting how time can change things and almost swap platforms.

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ingac70

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Fri Jun-04-10 10:40 PM
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1. Repubs were still big fat corporate whores back then....

They just siphoned all the assholes and crackpots off of the Dems in the years that followed, thank goodness.

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RobertPlant

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Fri Jun-04-10 10:43 PM
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2. at least there wasn't a kook element to them back then

Edited on Fri Jun-04-10 10:44 PM by RobertPlant

i still would have voted democrat if i was alive then but the john birchers and mccarthyites that characterize the party of today didn't begin to infiltrate them until the 50s or 60s.

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RKP5637

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Fri Jun-04-10 10:50 PM
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3. So true, the republicans have now become truly the party of crackpots, but way

back it was different. Rs and Ds would argue way back, but could still be friends. Today that is getting harder and harder to do as the country is so ridiculously polarized and the Rs have become so far RW and frankly crazy IMO.

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Odin2005

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Fri Jun-04-10 11:06 PM
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4. Back then both parties had Liberal and Conservative wings.

The main difference between the parties then were between the libertarian GOP and the authoritarian Dems. In the 30s the Libertarian Left (The Progressive Republicans) bolted the GOP and joined the Dems. Then in the 60s and 70s the Authoritarian Right (Dixiecrats, other bigots, and Fundies) bolted from the Dems and joined the GOP.

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