Race And Politics In The South
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-08-30/race-and-politics-south
From the five states that make up the Deep South, there is just one white Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives -- and the Congressman is in jeopardy of losing his seat this November. It’s a trend that has been underway for years in many Southern states. Whites are aligning with Republicans, and blacks with Democrats. Political observers say the shift is happening, to some extent, across the country. But the political division along racial lines is most apparent in parts of the South, where an increasingly black Democratic Party is in the political minority. Diane and her guests discuss race and politics in the South.
Guests
Naftali Bendavid
national correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
Paul Butler
professor at Georgetown Law School.
Sean Trende
senior elections analyst for RealClearPolitics and author of "The Lost Majority: Why the Future of Government Is Up for Grabs - and Who Will Take It."
Nia-Malika Henderson
national politics reporter for The Washington Post.
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Modern day Republi-Cons love to point out that in the Sixties there were Republicans who voted for the civil rights laws, ignoring a key fact in the process. The Republicans who did so were mostly (almost 100%) Northern moderate and liberal Republicans. Today, of course, liberal Republicans are extinct, and moderates are all but extinct. In fact, these are the people usually denounced as RINO’s (Republicans in name only).
And what of the Democrats? Well, the minority who voted against these laws were mostly (almost 100%) Southern conservatives. But they made out just fine, gaining a new home in the GOP (with Strom Thurmond leading the way). This was aided and abetted by Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”.
This was a pivotal moment for both parties: the Democrats lost the South, and the Republicans began the process which morphed them into the modern Republi-Con (Republican-Conservative) Party, which no more should claim credit for the civil rights laws, then conservative Senator Thurmond could claim credit for liberal Lincoln’s ending slavery!
our best man,
Are you suggesting that the elderly disabled and the minor children who consume over 70% of government assistance are supposed to somehow compete on equal footing with everyone else (ala the statements you chose from Mr. Sowell) ?
Since you chose Mr. Washington to quote from in your first post, a personage from a distant period, lets use the words of someone even farther back:
"Whatsoever you do to the least of my bretheren, that you do unto me." (Matthew 25)
The Republican Party of 2012 via Messrs. Romney and Ryan are promoting the notion that all can and should be individualists, as does Mr. Sowell's premises. The real life facts bear out that, in spite of efforts over the years, discrimination still exists and minorities remain disadvantaged. And the Republican platform and candidates still have nothing in mind or on paper to remedy this situation, and their repeated use of code words and innuendo trade on social resentments and fears.
Honest?Abe wrote: "Whatsoever you do to the least of my bretheren, that you do unto me." (Matthew 25)"
Yeah and teach a man to fish.
The whole intellectual argument the left puts forward has been proven a dismal failure by any measure, you argue from the stand point of a pervert.
If I hear the words race and south one more time I'm gonna vomit. I live here, the south I mean. When will this stop?? What do we have to do as Southerners'?? As American's to put an end to this bickering?? I can't speak for all Americans but this is what I believe... I am not a political person. I'm am not fooled by the tricks that our two party governmental system play on one another. Now for me, I don't want to see anyone fail or any ethnic group or any sub-society in our counrty. Failure for anyone affects eveyone. Its time we started behaving like Americans(all for one and one for all). Now if you have faith that any govermental group is going to solve all your problems then you are already putting yourself in jepoardy. Have blacks gotten a raw deal in the past, of coarse but no amount of money, govermental aid, restitution or the gift of entitlement will be enough to fullfill black society. If its a black man in prison you will say that they are being targeted. If its an unwed black mother you will say she is automatically deserving. If a black woman has children by different father's you will say, well thats her right but its your obligation to support them. When will black America stand up for itself and say we have to change this. We black Americans are responsible for our own actions. We black American's demand our society change our views? Why don't I hear this?? Why is all I hear is racism this and racism that?? I bet if you ask the majority of successfull blacks in America, What do you attribute to your success in life? Bet none of them say government!!! If Martin Luther King, Jr. were here he would be appauled by what he would see in black America today. Its much easier to just say racism instead of saying what can we all do as Americans' to change our future. I was born in America, I owe you nothing. You were born in America, you owe me nothing. We were all born in America, so lets pull together and give each other something.
I have referenced the show and Tracy Thompson's comment in a blog about my alma mater, which happens to be same as Marshall Frady, the great social justice journalist of the Civil Rights Era David Halberstam said most likely was the best of the bunch.
See my blog on Atticus Finch and the tea party at www.foxofbama.blogspot.com