OK fair enough. I referenced party affilliation in those votes because that's the nomenclature you chose to characterise Republicans who supported Trump. You said the "racists" of the segreationalist South swtiched "parties" not geography. You said the current Republican party appartus in general was where White Supremacists resided. Now you're trying to argue that that your positions weren't based on party but simply where the White Supremacists resided?
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I am not sure you are able to follow a basic discussion. I'm not the one who made the claim that the voting in the Civil Rights Act was a good measure of if current white supremacists aligned more with Democrats or Republicans. You were the one who said that, and I refuted that argument by showing how flawed it was.
Yes, I said that current white supremacists align with the current Republican party far more than the Democratic party. You attempted to refute that by saying that Democrats were the ones who fought against the Civil Rights Act, so according to you, white supremacists would align better with Democrats. I explained how your argument was flawed . The voting of the Civil Rights Act was based entirely on geography of each congressman, regardless of party. In fact, northern Democrats voted in favor of the Act at a higher percentage than northern Republicans. Southern Democrats voted in favor of the Act at a higher percentage than southern Republicans. When you look at the numbers, you will see that there was really no difference in how southern Dems voted vs. southern Repubs or how northern Dems voted vs. northern Repubs. That shows that the voting wasn't done on party, but rather, based on geography. In other words, you argument about white supremacists aligning more with Dems due to how they voted in the Act is flawed at its very core, since the voting in the Act wasn't done based on party, but rather, geography.
So what is your argument? Is it party based or geographically based in terms of where the Republican White Supremacists who support Trump can be sourced?
What would ever lead you to the conclusion that my argument about where current white supremacists would align is based on geography? YOU were the one who made a flawed argument regarding the Act. I showed you that the voting in the Act was based simply on geography.
At the time, those voting against the Act were almost entirely in the south regardless of party. Those voting for the Act were almost entirely in the north regardless of party. At the time, racism was far more prevalent, politically, in the south than the north regardless of party affiliation. It didn't matter if you were Democrat or Republican, a politician in that era in the south would be labeled a racist today. Southern Democrats also fit that mold in that era. That is why southern Democrats overwhelmingly voted against the Act. So what happened? The northern Democrats conquered not only the vote, but they also took control of the party. Southern Democrats who held those racist beliefs saw that their party was changing and their racist/segregationist views were no longer welcomed. What did that result in? It resulted in them flipping from Democrats to Republicans, a party where their racist beliefs were more accepted. This is further supported by the number of southern Democrats who voted for Goldwater (Republican) due to Lyndon Johnson's (Democrat) pushing to get the Act approved. Those southern Democrats, outraged that their party was going away from the beliefs the southern Democrats held, ended up voting for a Republican (Goldwater). That was the beginning of many of them flipping.
Look at the biggest/most well known racists in politics from that era until now. Lets list them: Strom Thurmond, Robert Byrd, David Duke, Jessie Helms.
Initially, the Democrats had a stranglehold on the south. However, desegregation started to kick in, championed by leaders on both sides, and it led to the dixiecrats (southern Dems) starting their own party called the States Rights Democratic Party. These dixiecrats wanted nothing to do with desegregation, so they splintered from the Democrats. In fact, they nominated Strom Thurmond (we will get back to him) as their presidential candidate. They got blown away, and the party ended up imploding. Most went back to the Democratic party and stayed there until the Civil Rights Act (Lyndon Johnson/Goldwater situation). As I mentioned, the southern Democrats wanted nothing to do with desegregation and equal rights, so they left for good this time.
Thurmond (remember him?), a racist dixiecrat, jumped to the Republican side. He then was free to carry on his racist beliefs until his death. Helms? He did the exact same thing. He jumped from being a racist dixiecrat to the Republicans when he realized his views wouldn't be accepted in the party. David Duke, a former Democrat, did the same exact thing decades later. Robert Byrd never jumped to the Republicans. He did, however, unlike Thurmond and Helms had to do to become a Republican, disavowed his previous beliefs. In fact, in an interview, Byrd admitted to having to drop his segregationist views because he realized he would never succeed nationally in the Democratic party with those views.
So out of the four biggest/most well known racists in national politics since then, three of the four jumped from Democrats to Republicans and the fourth disavowed his racist beliefs in order to fit in with Democrats nationally.
You simply don't have an understanding of political history as it relates to this. That was obvious with your very first attempt arguing that Democrats were the ones who voted against the Act.
It is why people like Dinesh are so dangerous. He is able to present a professional piece of propaganda, manipulate information, give half-truths, and mislead those people who don't have the intelligence to know any better. It is no wonder that he has used your same exact argument in his most recent movie.
Now, I am happy to continue discussing this issue (your flawed claim that the Act voting proves Democrats are the racists). I suggest you acknowledging that your argument was flawed and are wrong on this individual topic, because I can continue to show other southern Democrats (dixiecrats) who jumped to the Republican side where their racism was more accepted.
If you can accept that, I will answer your next question related to affirmative action.