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   worldisacomic said, 10 months ago

   Better than having acorns, hammers and sickles stuck in your back pocket hidden from view!
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   charliekane said, 10 months ago

   May have been gay.
   Messes in states’ business.
   Big government liberal who ruled by edicts and proclamations.
   Nah.
   No way this guy could be a Republican now days!
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   ReasonsVentriloquist said, 10 months ago

   I’m happy this meme is becoming part of the conversation.
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   Crazy as it is, I take partial credit for it.
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   Here and in other places I have been asking people if they realized why the rural North is so solidly Republican while the cities are more Democrats.
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   This is especially true in NY and PA and OH. The answer is that those people are the descendents of Abolishionists. The Quakers, and the Mennonites and the Shakers and the other oldie time religion folks of the North were against Slavery. They registered with Lincoln’s party.
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   In the cities, the Democrats were the businessmen who were quite ammenable with the status quo in that the goods were flowing through their cities and out to Europe.
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   I use to say to my Jewish friends that were Republicans, “You are NOT even close to what the Republican party is today. Do you know what they call a Northern Republican down South? They call him a Democrat! And a Liberal Democrat at that!” But his father was a Republican, and a Republican his father’s son was going to stay.
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   That’s how it works.
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   ARodney said, 10 months ago

   Umm, it also has to do with the fact that the tea party people are absolutely bats#!t crazy, deny facts, believe lies, and launch McCarthy style attacks on good people for being “unAmerican” or “moderate,” while happily and proudly doing their best to destroy America through planned incompetence in government. There is no question that Lincoln (who was a good president) would be ashamed of what happened to his party, which takes pride in its strident anti-intellectualism and can no longer tolerate competent candidates.
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   pirate227 said, 10 months ago

   Hasn’t been the the party of Lincoln since the civil rights movement. All those racist Dixiecrats found a new home.
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   Kylie2112 said, 10 months ago

   @charliekane

   Actually, the former Dixiecrats (current evangelical Republicans) were Democrat because they hated Lincoln. It wasn’t until the 1960 election that Nixon broke the Solid South by convincing them not to elect a Yankee Democrat.
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   dtroutma said, 10 months ago

   LIncoln, T.R., Ike, even Nixon would disown them. Harding, “Mr Teapot Dome” and steal what you can? Not so much. But on social issues like race, the two parties have indeed “swapped” since Dixiecrats switched the bigot spigot.
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   masterskrain said, 10 months ago

   As Abe would say: “It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to!”
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   iamthelorax said, 10 months ago

   This has been bothering me for a long long time. Lincoln fought the south as a Republican. I assume this means the south was a Democrat stronghold? How did the south become the defacto Republican supporters?
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    charliekane said, 10 months ago

    @iamthelorax

    When JFK, and then after his death, LBJ embraced civil rights legislation, northern and southern Democrats were put on a collision course. LBJ knew that this would cause the south to be lost the the Democrats “for a generation” (and actually more). LBJ believed it was more important to do what was right. Such a novel concept this side of the border now days.

    The Republicans cynically siezed upon this opening with their “Southern Strategy”.
    Check these out.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

    http://suite101.com/article/the-southern-strategy-and-richard-nixon-a269466
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    Mhic Dhu Ghaill said, 10 months ago

    The “Party of Jefferson” is in no better shape with its libotards, tax dodgers and unvetted czars.
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    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 10 months ago

    @iamthelorax

    Two words: Ronald Reagan.
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    Three words: William Jefferson Clinton
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    Three words and three letters : Civil Rights Act/ LBJ.
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    Remember when what’s his name got up in front of the Republican primary and went off like the Fourth of July on the Democrats (he is/was a Democrat)? Remember when Strom Thurman was a democrat? Remember that George Wallace ran for the Democratic nomination in 1968.
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    This is what LBJ meant when he signed the Civil Rights Act and said “This will lose the South for the Democrats for the next 50 years” (That was when you put country before party).
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    When Ronnie ran, and when he embraced the “Moral Majority” he allowed Democrats across the south, the so called Reagan Democrats to actually vote for a Republican.
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    Then when Clinton was elected, there was a great migration of Dixiecrats to the other side of the aisle as they were promissed that they wouldn’t give up their senority and could keep their committee assignments in a Republican Majority. Zell Miller stayed a Dem, I don’t know why.
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    Woodrow Wilson was a Democrat, and “from” Princeton! He would not be considered a Democrat by today’s standards. He was a southern Democrat, somewhat of a racist and no big friend to the working man. He had his good points too… But…Overall…
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    Around that same time was TR who was sort of at the turn of the Republicanism ideal.
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    Etymologically speaking “Democrat” and “Republican” are practically the same thing, in that both are used to express that the the powere is derived from a mandate of the masses. “Republican” however, according to Montesquieu, can be a Republic that is ruled by Oligarchs and Aristocracies .
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    It was that fundamental shift from the masses to the Oligarchs (remember this was the era of the hyperwealthy like Rockefeller, Carneggy, Vanderbilt, DuPont, JP Morgan, etc etc) BTW, Roosevelt wasn’t exactly poor, but he wasn’t a Tuxedo Park Blue Blood.
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    In the irony of the times, TR was ticked at Republican President Taft for trying to use the Sheman Act to bust up US Steal. TR created a 3rd party of Republican Progressives. The Democrats Nominated Wilson as their “Progressive” candidate which sapped TR of votes and support.
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    In any case, that was where the Republicans got the veneer of being the party of the “Chamber of Commerce.” This continued when FDR ran as a Democrat and the switch was semi complete in the North.Dems became the Progressives and Reps became the Conservatives .
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    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 10 months ago

    @Kylie2112

    It wasn’t so much the Yankee, and it wasn’t the Democrat… It was that he wasn’t a Christian, he was a Catholic! A papist who would take his marching orders from the Vatican!
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    Them good ole boys weren’t go’ine risk eternal damnation by electing someone who’d force them to pray to Mary!
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    Innerestin story, when Jimmy Carter won a seat in the GA legislature one of the first thing he tried to do was reduce to 7, the number of years a man could vote after he had died!
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    In Ga, up to that point, a man was considered to have passed on his proxy when he passed on. One individual had the right to vote for the departed so long as that person had been registered and so long as he had some way of proving that he knew how the departed would have voted if he had been given the choice.
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    Mhic Dhu Ghaill said, 10 months ago

    @ReasonsVentriloquist

    Whites only of course. I was born in GA
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    mdavis4183 said, 10 months ago

    Really stupid cartoon.
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