08-02-2007, 12:58 PM
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| Congressional Representative Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Alabama Gender:  Posts: 2,468 Points: 12,752, Level: 73 | Level up: 76%, 98 Points needed |  |  Quote:
Originally Posted by Katczinsky  It probably has a lot to due with the fact that all the southern Democrats switched to the Republican Party because the northern liberals were making them too uppity about civil rights. But there had to be something in the Republican Party that attracted them in the first place; which probably came down to a conservative/progressive divide. To the southerners progress wasn't good if it meant giving minorities equal rights.
Thus, the Republicans inherited the conservative Bible belt. It was only a matter of time before the conservative Christians overtook the almost libertarian-like traditions of the Republican Party. Instead of the small-government Republicans switching to the Democratic Party, many of them stayed due to party loyalty (and in a process of brain washing are duped into supporting a big-government and big-business party), while some went independent. |
I think that you are right. I don't remember knowing anyone that professed to being a Republican when I was a child. Most Alabamians were "Yellow Dog Democrats." (As in, I'd vote fer an ol' yeller dog afore I'd vote fer a Republican!")
Then the Democratic party came down on the "wrong" side of the Civil Rights Movement and all the bigots switched parties.
During the 70s & 80s, I wish that I had kept count of the number of headlines in Alabama newspapers that read something like "Smith First Republican Elected To (Fill in Blank) In 100 Years."
Right now America spends $700 billion every year on foreign oil. That's our money going overseas when it could be staying here. We have to stop this.
That's why I support the Pickens Plan. Check out the website at www.pickensplan.com. If you like what you see, please join me as a Pickens Plan supporter.
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