Comments by "Aidan B" (@aidanb58) on "Why Did the Democratic South Become Republican? | 5 Minute Video" video.
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@hochhaul Hey, fun fact. None of that addresses what I said. First off, the switch was of ideology, not individuals. That's why, even after the republicans had gained the south, the people were still voting for right wing policies. Those southern democrats you are referencing mostly died or were replaced over the next few years, with increasingly right-wing and republican friendly (or just plain republican) democrats. Does it not give you a cuase for question to wonder why the southerners voted together, and the northerners voted together, or that the north was still very liberal in those times, and the more liberal you were, the more likely you would be to vote for the CRA? As well as that... the dems wrote and signed that bill, mate. If you want to talk about openly racist politicians, we can talk about Goldwater, or Thurmond. However, like you have done, I would like to quote Martin Luther King Jr, on two issues. One, is his view of the republicans, specifically the 1964 Republican Convention. "The republican party geared it's appeal and program towards racism, reaction and extremism. All people of good will viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the cow palace of the KKK with the Radical Right." The second thing i'd like to quote from MLK was his own political ideology. "“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic… [Capitalism] started out with a noble and high motive… but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness. [W]e are saying that something is wrong … with capitalism…. There must be better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism. I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective – the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed matter: the guaranteed income… The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.” Now, about Byrd. The thing about him, is that he is the only dem the republicans can point to being in the KKK (when the KKK votes for them today) but he himself admitted that he only joined because he used to be a conservative. That was also, oh, 80 years ago. Speaking of zealous segregationists, I can introduce you to Henry Garret, a man who not only opposed, but testified against Brown v Board, and better yet, went on to found an organization that still calls for segregation and racism today. Oh, and he was a conservative. We already mentioned Goldwater, and how his campaign revolutionized the racist south, but you've perfectly touched on it. The south has always been racist, and always been right wing.
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