Can you explain to a non-American how the Republican party went from having a slave-abolitionist platform to being liked mostly by Southern rednecks with overtly racist ideologies?
It's funny to see how the Red and Blue states pretty much switched places in as little as 100 years.
>>390426
yes the party that believes everyone should have equal access of opportunities is more racist than the party that believes minorities cant do anything without the white man giving them a hand out.
>>390426
Basically during the 60's you had the Civil Rights movement kicking off. At that time, the Democratic and Republican parties weren't quite as solidly "liberal" and "conservative" as they are today: they both contained a mix. However, with FDR and subsequently LBJ rising to the presidency, the Democrats set a new agenda for championing the civil rights movement. This alienated many conservative Southern Democrats (Dixicrats) who proceeded to switch en masse to the Republicans. Subsequently, the liberals of the Republican party realized they had effectively no representation left in that party and likewise jumped ship. There would be some back and forth movement of policy and politicians until the Reagan era, where the Republicans took up the neoconservative stances they do today, and party lines have effectively remained at a status quo since then.
In terms of policy as well, at least for the Democrats, you had the slow absorption of the New Left into the party's coalition, which further exacerbated the movement towards pushing social reforms.
>>390426
there's plenty of minority republicans though
>>390426
mostly FDR and Nixon
Nixon being the one who took over "the solid south"
>>390439
this tbqhwy fami
>>390564
1. More debt
2. More debt
3. Asylum without assimilation is invasion
4. Fewer jobs
5. More debt
6. Now workers can't refuse to join unions
7. Fallacy
Before you say I am a Trump supporter, he is in the bottom 3 of my list of GOP candidates.
>>390426
Dixiecrats were butthurt that there fellow party members supported the civil rights bill.
They became so butthurt, that they abandoned the Democratic party altogether for the Republicans, who didn't really want them.
Barry Goldwater was really the last hurrah for those Rockefeller Republicans who eventually faded into obscurity or became staunch libertarians.
>>390757
Nah, politicians back then knew the best thing to do was to cover government spending with taxes taking out loans when there was a sudden pressing need for more revenue, unlike todays "TAXES ARE THE SATAN!" republicans.
