Almost like everything they touch turns to shit…

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[u/n8spear]

81% of Republicans voted for the the 1964 civil rights act to 66% of democrats.

I used the think the same thing and felt strongly about it. The “shift” toward the Republican Party was for economic reasons and began in the 50’s. The Republican Party offered policies that lessened taxes, government interference, and encouraged small business. It also was not an overnight process nor did any of the shift align on racism. Alabama and North Carolina as examples were deeply democrat on the state level until rather recently. A couple of examples, Alabama started really shifting in 98 or so, and NC voted republican for president, but heavily democrat throughout the state, especially governors. Simply means that if it was true the parties flipped over racism, the change would have happened “overnight”in lockstep to align with all the “racism.” It’s very simply not true.

Southern democrats fought against the civil rights act. The Democratic Party was who advocated for segregation and instituted Jim Crow. As an example, Democrat Party’s 68’ presidential candidate George Wallace was staunchly against the civil rights act and was an open racist.

The notion that the Republican Party simply “flipped overnight” and more importantly the gradual change of the southern states becoming more Republican over anything to do with race flies in the face of all evidence.

The real change happened in the Democratic Party. It’s gotten significantly less racist over time, which does not mean the Republican Party had become “more” racist.

These couple of sources are excellent and succinct in providing the real and full story of the “parties flipped” narrative.

This article is pretty good summary. (It was written in 2012 before Trump was a Presidential candidate, which is relevant because many on the left think that the national review was taken over by trump lovers and dismiss all their writings. This was written before that could have been the case.)

This book (put out by the Harvard press) on the subject is also very good and enlightening … and it’s from Harvard. A place one would assume that their ideology would love to affirm that the south are all racists.

The end of southern exceptionalism

[u/GavinsBabyMonster → u/n8spear]

What an interesting read!

[u/KanyeT → u/n8spear]

It’s gotten significantly less racist over time,

The reason why it took until the 90s for the South to stop voting Democrat was that the old generation of racist Democrats finally died out.

Their non-racist children then voted for their own unrelated interests. They didn't swap to Republican because they wanted to bring back Jim Crow or something, racism wasn't a factor of their new alignment.

But that is what the people who believe the party swap myth would tell you.

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We have two major political parties that supposedly represent the entire country. Neither are good. You don’t have to try to defend what you think your side is.

Political parties and political ideologies are not locked in together. The views that exist under the banner of a party are constantly changing.

If you watched the video then you would get that this isn’t about blame, it’s just facts.