On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:04:03 -0500, the renowned "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

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As I said, you are too young to remember.

Well, most people here are too young to remember the ratification of the
Constitution, but an awful lot of them seem to know what it says. d8-)

Before the Dixiecrat
rebellion, the Democratic party took the South for granted. Did not
take the South into consideration when drawing up the party platform,
etc. They thought the South was always going to vote Democratic
reguardless.

The Dixiecrats were a third party, and as expected lost. But after
that there was an effort to keep the South as part of the Democratic
party. As you say the Democrats were able to hold it together for a
while, but one could see that it was a matter of time before the South
would go Republican.

No doubt about that, Dan. The only reason they were Democrats is because
Lincoln and the carpetbaggers were Republicans.

It was a weird political history. Nixon tapped the right vein to pull them
over by playing the race card.

Phlebitis?


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