"DSK" wrote in message
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Bart Senior wrote:
If you look back in history, the Democrats strongly supported
the KKK until President Ulysses.S. Grant, a Republican, who
ordered troops in to break the back of the KKK.


That was a whole different world back then. If you think the KKK has not
been active & influential... all over the country, and not just the
South... since the days of Ulysses S. Grant, then you need to look
closer. The KKK is still active, and I'll give you three guesses which
candidate they supported in the last election!

One reason why the South switched almost overnight from solidly Democrat
to solidly Republican, back when I was young, is the support that the
national Democratic Party gave to the Civil Rights movement. The
Republicans stepped in where the Dixiecrats stopped. It is no accident
that such avowed racists as Lester Maddox and Jesse Helms were Republican.

True. In fact the worst KKK violence was in retaliation to northern
carpetbaggers exploiting ex slaves *after* Grant took office and as DSK says
continues to this day. In 1960 congress was controlled by a coalition of No.
Republicans and So. Democrats. JFK launched the civil rights movement to
break that up using the supressed black vote. It worked - all the Dixicrats
became Republicans bringing a true 2-party system to the South. Blame it on
Lincoln (c: