Betty Bowers; Better to be a party with a troubled history on race than one with a troubled present

[Dennis Donovan]

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @BettyBowers

After the 1964 Civil Rights Act Talmadge boycotted the Democratic Convention. Republicans used such anger to recruit segregationists to the GOP ("The Southern Strategy&quot . Oh, Look! It worked!

Better to be a party with a troubled history on race than one with a troubled present.

Tom Cotton ✔ @TomCottonAR
A history lesson is warranted: Senators James Eastland and Herman Talmadge were *Democrats*—as were other segregationists. @JoeBiden & them have nothing to do with “bipartisanship,” so please leave GOP out of Democrats’ debates about their party’s troubled history on race.

6:15 PM - Jun 19, 2019

[dhill926]

1. exactly right...

repubs trying to blur the issue as usual....it's in their damaged DNA.....

[Thomas Hurt]

2. The Democrats of the slave and Jim Crow were conservatives

Teddy's GOP and the Bull Moose Party were progressive for the day.

The GOP chose to become the party of the bigot and racist.

[debsy]

3. "...JoeBiden & them have..."

Methinks Tom Cotton needs a little English lesson!

The criminal enterprise that is the GOP needs to be shut down ASAP!. If Tom Cotton were writing my next sentence, he would say, "[t]hem are HORRIBLE examples of our species." Of course, he would be wrong! The sentence should be "They are HORRIBLE examples of our species."

[Captain Zero]

4. Always best to be on the right side of history...

WHILE you are living it. Cotton is not.

[saidsimplesimon]

5. I bow to the wisdom of Mdme. Bowers.

"History is written by the victors." Winston Churchill

[TomSlick]

6. I don't know that Sen. Cotton is a racist. I have not heard him say anything blatantly racists.

However, I do know that the racists here in Arkansas think that Sen. Cotton is a racist.

[Hortensis]

7. Yes, but better yet to realize that most of our "troubled history"

was created by the minority archconservative Southern Democrat faction. That troubled history was never created, but fought to various degrees, by the liberals who have now once again mostly dominated the Democratic Party for 100 years.

Those southerners joined the wing of the party that was taken over by the conservative settler likes of Andrew Jackson (after their own rabidly pro-slavery southern party died). They remained, as a diametrically poor fit as it returned to its origin as a liberal progressive party, until the Democratic Civil Rights Act of 1964 finally caused them move to the Republican Party, which they quickly imbued with their own culture. When they went, their influence went with them.

Black voters know this; they aren't stupid. Only half were Democrats when FDR was first elected. Before long a large majority were, and their faction was critically instrumental in shaping and passing the New Deal era legislation. Now that the sorting out of rabid racists is mostly complete, we are the grand, widely diverse alliance of Americans, and the Republican Party has consolidated as the white male supremacist party.