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> Ah, so we are still acting like Republicans aren't the legacy bearers of Jim Crow. Democrats enacted Jim Crow laws (0). I see no evidence that Republicans ha

> Ah, so we are still acting like Republicans aren't the legacy bearers of Jim Crow. Democrats enacted Jim Crow laws (0). I see no evidence that Republicans have enacted any laws that systematically discriminate against black people, in fact Trump has tried to reform the criminal justice system (1). He pardoned Jack Johnson posthumously, and has been handing out pardons like candy to wrongfully accused blacks. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws 1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/3100-inmates-to-be-released-as-trump-administration-implements-criminal-justice-reform/2019/07/19/7ed0daf6-a9a4-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/3100-inmate...

NotSammyHagar 7y ago
It was the dems from places like my state in the south, but they all moved to the republican party because of the success of republican party taking on those conservatives. During reconstruction, since lincoln was a republican all the southerners became dems. It wasn't until Nixon and the 1970s that the republicans attracted those conservatives. Today the jim crow defenders, the people that say slavery wasn't so bad, some people were even better off. Those are republicans. They switched.
- jimmywanger 7y ago
  > Today the jim crow defenders, the people that say slavery wasn't so bad, some people were even better off. Those are republicans. > They switched. A lot of them switched for reasons unrelated to race. "Many white southerners switched to the Republican Party, some for reasons unrelated to race. The majority of white southerners shared conservative positions on taxes, moral values and national security. The Democratic Party had increasingly liberal positions rejected by these voters.[20] In addition, the younger generations, who were politically conservative but wealthier and less attached to the Democratic Party, replaced the older generations who remained loyal to the party.[20] The shift to the Republican Party took place slowly and gradually over almost a century.[20]" From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_Southern_United_States#The_South_becomes_Republican https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_Southern_Unite...

NotSammyHagar 7y ago

It was the dems from places like my state in the south, but they all moved to the republican party because of the success of republican party taking on those conservatives. During reconstruction, since lincoln was a republican all the southerners became dems. It wasn't until Nixon and the 1970s that the republicans attracted those conservatives. Today the jim crow defenders, the people that say slavery wasn't so bad, some people were even better off. Those are republicans. They switched.

jimmywanger 7y ago
> Today the jim crow defenders, the people that say slavery wasn't so bad, some people were even better off. Those are republicans. > They switched. A lot of them switched for reasons unrelated to race. "Many white southerners switched to the Republican Party, some for reasons unrelated to race. The majority of white southerners shared conservative positions on taxes, moral values and national security. The Democratic Party had increasingly liberal positions rejected by these voters.[20] In addition, the younger generations, who were politically conservative but wealthier and less attached to the Democratic Party, replaced the older generations who remained loyal to the party.[20] The shift to the Republican Party took place slowly and gradually over almost a century.[20]" From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_Southern_United_States#The_South_becomes_Republican https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_Southern_Unite...