Reddit reviews Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past

Well the old school of thought was that democrats just played this identity politics game so they could get votes (see: Dixiecrats and the southern strategy evolution from the 1960s-1980s.) If just half of the black vote woke up and turned to republican principles instead of the welfare state, the dems would never win an election again.

The new school of thought is that these people are so brainwashed they actually believe their own bullshit.

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For more educaton on the history of the democratic party racism please read Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Secret by Bruce Bartlett.

Bonus: Tucker Carlson interviewing Bruce Bartlett on MSNBC in 2008. (I bet that pissed his dem bosses off something fierce lol.)

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Fun facts about the democratic party:

• Lincoln (Republican) chose Johnson (democrat) as his VP to gain democrat support during the election and civil war. After based Lincoln's assassination, Johnson thwarted Congress' efforts to extend civil rights to freed slaves.
  
  
• The 14th Amendment, giving full citizenship to freed slaves, passed in 1868 with 94% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in congress. The 15th Amendment, giving freed slaves the right to vote, passed in 1870 with 100% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in congress.
  
  
• In the 1950s, President Eisenhower, a Republican, integrated the US military and promoted civil rights for minorities. Eisenhower pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1957. One of Eisenhower's primary political opponents on civil rights prior to 1957 was none other than Lyndon Johnson, then the Democratic Senate Majority Leader. LBJ had voted the straight segregationist line until he changed his position and supported the 1957 Act.
  
  
• The historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 was supported by a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats in both houses of Congress. In the House, 80 percent of the Republicans and 63 percent of the Democrats voted in favor. In the Senate, 82 percent of the Republicans and 69 percent of the Democrats voted for it.
  
  http://russp.us/racism.htm

Oh, that old nugget. The alleged "switcheroo" that suddenly made the Republican party racist and the Democrats' dirty history sparkly clean.

It's bullshit.

You might want to read up a little more on the subject.

You should read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Wrong-Race-Democratic-Partys-Buried/dp/B003R4ZJNE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340347576&sr=1-1&keywords=Wrong+on+Race