re: I'll never understand how the black population can support Democrats

Goldwater also opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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So why don't you explain to me Gore, Byrd, Fulbright, and the people that looked up to them and how there was a switch somehow.

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No doubt that many older men in the mid-20th century were racist, including LBJ. The deep south clearly flips after the CRA , Eisenhauer had nothing to do with it.

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Feel free to factcheck. You know it's right.

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I like how you linked a conservative commentary op-ed as fact.

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Goldwater also opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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He did. He previously supported 2 other versions of the civil rights act, but opposed the 1964 CRA because he stated it was unconstitutional.

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The deep south clearly flips after the CRA ,

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It clearly does not. You can't prove that it did. And as i stated, the DEEP SOUTH didn't elect their first Republican governors until the 90's. Not the 60s. And the Republican flip began in the 50's during Eisenhower. I posted all of this yet you are continuing with the propaganda and ignoring the facts. Why?

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Even before that, though, modern-day Democrats point to the 1964 presidential campaign of Republican Barry Goldwater, who refused to back the 1964 Civil Rights Act as proof that the GOP was actively courting racist southern voters. After all, they argue, Goldwater only won six states--his home state of Arizona and five states in the deep south. His "States' Rights" platform had to be code for a racist return to a segregated society, right?

Hardly. Goldwater was actually very supportive of civil rights for black Americans, voting for the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts and even helping to found Arizona's chapter of the NAACP. His opposition to the 1964 Act was not at all rooted in racism, but rather in a belief that it allowed the federal government to infringe on state sovereignty.

The Lyndon B. Johnson campaign pounced on Goldwater's position and, during the height of the 1964 campaign, ran an ad titled "Confessions of a Republican," which rather nonsensically tied Goldwater to the Ku Klux Klan (which, remember, was a Democratic organization).

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I like how you linked a conservative commentary op-ed as fact.

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Please explain what is false in that article.

Again, YOU CAN'T! Stop being a hack and just admit that you fell for the democrat propaganda.

More facts you will ignore

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With the southerner Johnson out of the race and Minnesota native Hubert Humphrey as his opponent, Nixon saw an opportunity to win southern states that Goldwater had, not through racism, but through aggressive campaigning in an area of the country Republicans had previously written off.

Yet it didn't work. For all of Nixon's supposed appeals to southern racists (who still voted for Democrats in Senate and House races that same year), he lost almost all of the south to a Democrat--George Wallace, who ran on the American Independent ticket and won five states and 46 electoral votes.

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Al Gore Sr.
Robert Byrd - Clinton (both Clintons) and Biden's mentor
William Fulbright - Clinton's Mentor

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Al Gore Sr voted as his constituents wanted him to but then lost his seat in 1970 to Bill Brock (an ex-Democrat who fled the party because of its civil rights support). Brock campaign slogan was 'Gore is a liberal'.

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how the black population can support Democrats

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They don't vote. Their ballots are cast for them.

if you tried to count number of people who show vs how many ballots were counted, you'd be arrested for " interfering with democracy"

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So why don't you explain to me Gore, Byrd, Fulbright, and the people that looked up to them and how there was a switch somehow.

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It was a well documented political campaign known by historians as the Southern Strategy

The Southern Strategy is traditionally understood as a Goldwater and Nixon-era effort by the Republican Party to win over disaffected white voters in the Democratic stronghold of the American South. To realign these voters with the GOP, the party abandoned its past support for civil rights and used racially coded language to capitalize on southern white racial angst. However, that decision was but one in a series of decisions the GOP made not just on race, but on feminism and religion as well.

In the wake of Second-Wave Feminism, the GOP dropped the Equal Rights Amendment from its platform and promoted traditional gender roles in an effort to appeal to anti-feminist white southerners, particularly women. And when the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention became increasingly fundamentalist and politically active, the GOP tied its fate to the Christian Right. All three of those decisions were necessary for the South to turn from blue to red.

To make inroads in the South, GOP politicians not only had to take these positions, but they also had to sell them with a southern "accent." Republicans embodied southern white culture by emphasizing an "us vs. them" outlook, preaching absolutes, accusing the media of bias, prioritizing identity over the economy, encouraging defensiveness, and championing a politics of retribution. In doing so, the GOP nationalized southern white identity, rebranded itself to the country at large, and fundamentally altered the vision and tone of American politics.

You can see the electoral map of the LBJ vs Goldwater election in 64

Goldwater only won his home state of Arizona and the southern states which opposed the civil rights act. This is the year before blacks could vote. Goldwater had promised that if he won, he would kill the voters right act.



FYI - this is the year i was born. Some say blacks got equality a long time ago but, i was born when blacks were not guaranteed the right to vote and i aint that old.

Because Dems are party of inclusion/diversity and not like GOP who is party of inclusion/diversity only when they want to say some of my best friends are black/brown and when it benefits them to have black/brown folks as tokens to say look black/brown people support our cause, just my opinion

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To realign these voters with the GOP, the party abandoned its past support for civil rights and used racially coded language to capitalize on southern white racial angst.

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Yep. There was a reason why Reagan launched his campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

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The parties flipped after all that

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bullshite... the story goes like this: Democrats so angry at the signing of the Civil Rights Act all decided to become Republican. This makes ZERO sense considering a greater percentage of Republicans voted FOR the civil rights act than Democrats. As a matter of fact the Democrats tried to filibuster.

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Yep. There was a reason why Reagan launched his campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

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Reagan pushed the myth of 'welfare fraud' by blacks in the south and his voters loved it. Much like voter fraud today, there was zero proof to substantiate the claim, but the idea that people of color were defrauding a system, Reagan hinted, by and for white people was political gold.