Republicans "Bamboozled" Blacks

I enjoy hearing the clueless Republican talk about how "The KKK was a Democratic organization, and "The Democrats made the Jim Crow Laws!" I suppose it is sad to see such a skewered perception of history, but to me it's funny. I'm going to tell this to Republicans once and for all, those racist Democrats were social conservatives who converted to Republican 3 decades ago, and those heroic "slave-freeing" Republicans are now Democrats!

How did this happen?

It all started when Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, effectively turning the conservatives who overwhelmingly voted Democrat into "Dixiecrats". Nixon saw this political hole as an opportunity for Republican gains, which is why he used "states' rights" as his campaign theme, a motto that to the north would mean moderate, but to the south, would be a secret code meaning anti-civil rights."

Thus converting the conservatives to Republicans, and since the conservatives were from the south, the south converted as well. That's why the union states that fought slavery are all blue states today, and the confederate southern states that fought FOR slavery are all red states.












Red=Slave States

Blue=Free States



Look familiar? Kinda like the 2004 presidential election....?








Furthermore, the "Democratic" KKK was a conservative organization that used "culture" and "tradition" as their excuse for bigotry much like modern conservatives use as their excuse for anti-gay bigotry. Plus they hated immigrants.

Oh, and I almost forgot, they used RELIGION to justify their bigotry as well! Religion was used as justification for immoral acts like slavery and segregation.


Let's let's do the math:

Racist=southern, culture-preaching bible-thumper
Homophobe=southern, culture-preaching biblethumper

Who hates gays? Social conservatives. Could there possibly be any other kind of people who fought the same way against blacks?

According to a UCLA study, liberal minds are much more accepting of people, which would make bigotry a conservative trait.

Eisenhower said he was a "social liberal" for being against segregation. But he was conservative enough to be against judicial activism, which is why when his Supreme Court appointment Earl Warren overturned segregation as unconstitutional, Eisenhower claimed "He was the biggest Damned-fool mistake of my life."