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Originally Posted by sck5
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Allow me to quote from the article that you so frequently throw in our faces:
"It was called 'the southern strategy,' started under Richard M. Nixon in 1968, and described Republican efforts to use race as a wedge issue -- on matters such as desegregation and busing --
to appeal to white southern voters."
Thus, the Republicans made an effort to appeal to "white (racist) southern voters," who, at that time, were overwhelmingly
Democrat racists. Republicans were trying to attract white southern Democrats to vote Republican for the first time since the Civil War, and that's what you seem to be complaining about. Now tell us, sck5, what is it that upsets you? Are you upset because the Republicans were trying to appeal to the many
racists in the Democrat party, or the fact the Republicans were trying to appeal to a large bloc of
voters in the Democrat party? I suspect the answer is that the southern Democrats might have been racists, but they were
your racists, and you didn't want the Republicans trying to wrest them away from your party.
In light of the shamefully racist history of the Democrat party, it's efforts to protect it's racist voting bloc from Republican incursion certainly doesn't reflect well on your party. At least Ken Mehlman had the decency to acknowledge the impropriety of the Republican strategy and to apologize for it. You Democrats refuse to acknowledge the extent of your guilt in preserving southern racism for the last
century. Tell me, how was it any more disgraceful for the Republicans to try to
attract racist Democrat voters than it was for the Democrat Party to try to
retain their racist Democrat voters?