Republicans In The South: Things Don’t Change

1:06 pm EST April 7th, 2011 | Conservative | 13 Comments

In this PPP poll, “46% of these hardcore Republican voters believe interracial marriage should be illegal.” In 2011. In America. Lord.

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13 Responses to “Republicans In The South: Things Don’t Change”

  1. Quaker in a Basement says:
    April 7, 2011 at 1:12 pm

    Should be illegal? Small government conservatism in action!

  2. Nicole473 says:
    April 7, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    This is just another reason why we should have let the thugs secede. They never learn, and they are incapable of reason and logic.

  3. db says:
    April 7, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    Right Quaker. Republicans believe in Limited Government. Limited to do only those things they approve of.

  4. rat_bastard says:
    April 7, 2011 at 2:02 pm

    nearly 70% of them are over 50 so they have that going on.

  5. rat_bastard says:
    April 7, 2011 at 2:13 pm

    Oh my god, it just gets better and better!

    http://mediamatters.org/blog/201104070019

  6. Digby says:
    April 7, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    Crayon colors shouldn’t be mixed. It’s unnatural.

  7. jrfunkenstein says:
    April 7, 2011 at 5:15 pm

    Wow; the South will fall again, it seems.

    rat; the very idea of asking Michelle Malkin to explain ‘what’s going on’ with Crayola or any other damn thing is pure slapstick.

  8. doctorpsycho1960 says:
    April 7, 2011 at 5:37 pm

    Ohhhh, things do change in the South. It just takes awhile:

    http://www.dalnet.lib.mi.us/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00—0dplhacsm–00-0-0-0prompt-10—4—Document—0-1l–1-en-50—20-help—001-011-1-0gbk-0&a=d&cl=CL6.22&d=HASH0129e9a190eb310352d152fb

    I’d say one of the biggest was when the opponents of interracial marriage changed their party affiliation….

  9. db says:
    April 8, 2011 at 6:05 am

    Psycho,

    If you’re suggesting that the political parties have changed positions radically over the years, I’ll of course agree. The Republicans used to stand for Government spending for internal improvements and limits on corporate power. That’s why Glenn Beck wrote Theodore Roosevelt out of the Republican Party.

    If you’re suggesting that the South was the same in 1918 & 1960, I’m going to disagree. Things were changing & the changes in the 40 years before 1960 & the 40 years after 1960 have made a significant impact.

    Not that I’d know first hand, but I suspect that growing up Black is not easy. But it was tougher in the 1950s. Even tougher in the 19teens and I can only imagine, with horror, what growing up Black in the 1870s was like. I can’t imagine what growing up a slave would be like & I don’t think I’d want to.

  10. Manju says:
    April 8, 2011 at 6:14 am

    The title of this post is odd. Republicans in Mississippi are a relatively new thing. Dems dominated on the congressional level until the mid 90’s. Barbour beat an incumbent Dem and is only the 2nd repub governor since 1870. Senators from Mississippi were all Dem until 78 for one tranche and 89 for another.

    MI housed two of the most evil Muthers in US Senate history. James Eastland was arguably the most powerful segregationist in the land, since he controlled the senate judiciary committee where civil rights legislation went to die. You could say he delivered JFK into the White House. Kennedy sent Ike’s cra his way to be gutted and Eastland became an early supporter of his presidential campaign. The 1960 election was so close that without the racist vote, there is no JFK presidency.

    Eastland supported Nixon in 72, so he was critical to the Republican Southern Strategy. He then supported Carter in 76, who ran a campaign even more racist than Nixon. Shamefully, Senate Dems let him become President pro tempore, meaning Liberals put an unrepentant segregationist in the line of succession.

    The other asshole Stennis then took over that position so make it a racist twofer for liberals. However, the repubs then delivered Strom Thurmond into that seat, so the Conservatives get a demerit too. As a young prosecutor, Stennis put 2 black men behind bars who he knew had been tortured by police in order to extract a confession. He defeated Haley Barbour in Barbour’s first run for Senate.

    Good to see Dems making fun of the racists now that this asshole Barbour gets their votes. Too bad Dems didn’t show the same heart when the dem who enabled the torture of black folks was running.

  11. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    April 8, 2011 at 7:09 am

    “The other asshole Stennis then took over that position so make it a racist twofer for liberals.”

    You are mistaking Democrats for Liberals.

    Both parties used to be rather diverse in terms of liberal / moderate / conservative.

  12. db says:
    April 8, 2011 at 7:14 am

    Manju,

    You’ve forgotten Senator Theodore Bilbo. He should rank on your list. If you want to give us a history lesson go back at least as far as the 1930s.

    Just for it though, Jack Kennedy was not a “liberal”. He was the centerist in the Democratic Party primary elections. I certainly don’t remember Jimmy Carter running a “racist” campaign. If you want to give us history lessons, you might want to get it right.

  13. Ol Froth says:
    April 8, 2011 at 12:19 pm

    This has all been explained to Manju before. Its not worth the effort explaining it again, he’ll just reach back a few more decades to “prove” that the Democrats of 2011 are exactly the same as the southern Democrats of the 1950′s.