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Are Democrats the party of the KKK and Jim Crow? Things may have changed. (Though I cannot pass on the opportunity to remind that some of the largest protests

Are Democrats the party of the KKK and Jim Crow? Things may have changed. (Though I cannot pass on the opportunity to remind that some of the largest protests against school desegregation were in Boston)

lapcat 3y ago
> Are Democrats the party of the KKK and Jim Crow? They were, yes. For example, Senator Robert Byrd was KKK, and Governor George Wallace was a Democrat before running for President in 1968 as an independent. > Things may have changed. They have. The south started to flip from Democratic to Republican during the civil rights era.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  > They were Correct. The answer to "are they" is no. John W. Davis died in 1955 [1]. I think your comment is relevant, funny and informative. But it doesn't rise to making the rescission hypocritical. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Davis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Davis
  - lapcat 3y ago
    > Correct. The answer to "are they" is no. Well, the Jim Crow laws were declared unconstitutional in the 60s, and the Klan is now a shell of its former self, so I wouldn't put too much weight into "are" vs. "were". They were contemporaneous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan#Current_developments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan#Current_developme... > John W. Davis died in 1955 [1]. I think your comment is relevant, funny and informative. But it doesn't rise to making the rescission hypocritical. Yet the law firm still carries his name, and in first position, the first impression. Of course it's probably silly to talk about a law firm with almost $2 billion in annual revenue having any values whatsoever besides money and power.