The Sister Toldjah blog adds: "One can argue that the large blocs in Congress opposing civil rights legislation were “less Democrat” than they were Southern, the legacy of both the region’s history with slavery and the place where Jim Crow originated and was most strongly in force. (Though Jim Crow was not limited to the South, to be sure.) This line of argument also would point out that they were Democratic politicians because of the Civil War, in which a Republican administration first crushed the Confederacy and then imposed the hated Reconstruction. And that would be a fair observation. BUT… it is also fair to note that Northern and Western Democrats continually allied with racist Southern Democrats to win national elections and get legislation passed, each giving the other what it wanted. Which means there is no way around it: the Democratic Party as a whole owns that dirty history."
The link: http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2011/11/07/red-meat-monday-the-truth-about-the-democratic-party-and-civil-rights/
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Someday I hope the truth about all of this will come out and everyone will be surprised to learn the South wasn't all that bad.
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