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Originally Posted by IIFFOFRDB
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Kid Rock is a two time CMA award winner and two time host of the Country Music Awards event and the Democrats of the 60's are the Republicans of today.
Example: Strom Thurmond ...."1954 until 2003, at first as a
Democrat and, after 1964, as a
Republican. He switched because of his opposition to the
1964 Civil Rights Act, disaffection with the liberalism of the national party, and his support for the conservatism and opposition to the Civil Rights bill of the Republican presidential candidate Senator
Barry Goldwater."
Anyone who doesn't realize the Dems of the 50's and 60's who kept the South Blue are the same as the Republicans who now paint it red needs to brush up on their history. JFK Democrat Bobby Kennedy AG Democrat Lyndon Johnson Democrat and the Nixon "Southern Strategy" is not difficult to comprehend......convince the disaffected southern racists that the Democratic Party no longer represented their beliefs.
Kevin Phillips, a Nixon political strategist shared the following in a 1970 interview....
From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that...but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the
Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.
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