Railfan & Political Junkie Wrote:
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> Nussel Snouts Wrote:
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> > Unfortunately the Democrats e.g. Woodrow Wilson
> > were joined at the hip for decades with the KKK
>
> To associate contemporary Democrats with the KKK
> based on what Woodrow Wilson or Robert Byrd did
> 100 years ago is really ignorant. I don't go
> around claiming that the Republican Party is
> supportive of Environmental Protection Agency,
> even though it was created by Republican Richard
> M. Nixon because I am intelligent enough to know
> that the Republican Party of 2016 is not the same
> as it was in 1969.
>
> More to the point, one of the themes of the Trump
> campaign is opposition to so-called "political
> correctness" - i.e. opposition to the idea that
> people should not be insulted or physically
> harassed because they are gay, lesbian, African
> American, Latinos, Muslim, Asian or Jewish. The
> Democrats were perceived as the party of
> "political correctness." You can't have it both
> ways (i.e. link the Democrats to the Klan and then
> associate Democrats with "political correctness."

Don’t forget how the Southern Democrats had the registration set up so it was nearly impossible for people of African decent to vote. That where “dot your I and cross you T” come from.