re: Explain the Democrat party switch myth like I'm 5

The switch is complete nonsense.

The Democrats didn't elect their first black senator until 1993.

Dammit. Don't you know that a very small amount of dems switched to the gop..and a few rinos switched to the dem party.. so that means that the entirety of the Democrat history, before that... now belongs to the Republicans, and the history of the Republicans belong to the Democrats.

It must be nice to pretend that every fricking vile deed done by the Democrat party shouldn't be held over the heads of Democrats.... but Republicans instead. Those motherfrickers created the klan. They fought Lincoln every step of the way when it came to freeing slaves. They vehemently rejected giving black people and women the right to vote.

They are a party of evil. The tactics they are using now, are the same fricking tactics they used during their klan days. Intimidation and violence. False flags. Their targets used to be black people who weren't voting Democrat, and white people who weren't voting Democrat. Now, their targets are black people not voting Democrat and white people not voting Democrat.

Back during the dem klan, if they didn't like a black person... they'd lie and claim that the black dude did something he didn't do.. just so the mob would attack the black dude.

They were protected by that era's media, local politicians and national politicians. For a party that smugly claims to have"switched", they utilize every dirty trick of their predecessors.

Very good explanation

It’s a losing battle - I’m always surprised that folks on the right think that the party history will be an effective argument

I told an acquaintance of mine, “remember when you switched from being a KC fan to being a Broncos fan?” He said, “what? I hate the Broncos.”

Exactly.

The South didn’t really switch to Republican until 2000 - 36 years after the media’s so called switch because Southerners are racist and didn’t like the civil rights act. The South still most went for Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Abortion was the real issue that drove the South to the Republicans in 2000 but the media won’t tell you that dirty little secret because it’s easier and hits harder to lie and say they all switched in 1964 because they’re racist.

The Democrat Party came to the realization that, rather than show their utter disdain for blacks, it was more beneficial to pretend to help them in exchange for their votes. That's really the only switch.

The Democrat Party became more and more leftist, especially on the social issues and on National Security issues. Two of the three pillars of the Republican Party. As the south became more wealthy and developed a middle class the third pillar economic freedom became valued as well.

There were also local issues in different states that made Republicans appealing. In Louisiana Dave Treen wins because of corruption within the Edwards administration. But Louisiana had always historically switched between populists and reformers. And it still does that today.

quote:

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"I’ll have those [n-words] voting Democratic for 200 years"
- LBJ

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I asked this question to one of my history professors in college.

He responded with the conservative elements of the Democratic party started to move to the Republican party while the progressive elements of the Republican party started to move to the Democratic party after the Kennedy assassination (he just used that time as a reference, he didn't say that's what caused it.) I believe the election of 1964 was the first that the majority of dixie states went red. Thus we have two sides that are vastly different from each other.