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TexasTowelie

(111,313 posts)
Thu May 9, 2019, 04:27 AM May 2019

Joe Biden and the Dixiecrats Who Helped His Career

Long-time cotton planter James O. Eastland puffed on a bulging cigar in the U.S. Senate dining hall in Washington, D.C., during dinner one evening, or as the balding 73-year-old senator called it, "sup'uh." In a few short months, the powerful Mississippi Democrat would retire, closing the book on a political career that he began and grew by using overtly racist appeals and outspoken opposition to civil rights.

On that evening in 1978, though, the powerful Dixiecrat would once again offer counsel to one of his favorite young mentees. Soon after 35-year-old Delaware freshman Sen. Joseph Biden joined him, Eastland sensed something was amiss.

"Son, what's the matt'uh?" Eastland asked a visibly dejected Biden.

Biden, a member of the prestigious Senate Judiciary Committee that Eastland chaired, explained that he faced tough re-election odds in November, and feared he might lose his seat.

Read more: http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/may/01/joe-biden-and-dixiecrats-who-helped-his-career/

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Joe Biden and the Dixiecrats Who Helped His Career (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2019 OP
I hope people will read the entire article, although I know most won't. MineralMan May 2019 #1
 

MineralMan

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1. I hope people will read the entire article, although I know most won't.
Thu May 9, 2019, 12:01 PM
May 2019

That period was a time of transition. As another Southern Senator mentioned in the same article, the old Dixiecrats were done. Their time had passed, and Biden was the next generation. They handed off to that new generation gladly, knowing that the civil rights movement had changed the direction of this country.

Some might read the beginning of this article and think that Joe Biden is like the old Dixiecrats. He's not. He's part of what replaced them. And good riddance to that previous generation of Southern Democrats, along with the racism that went with them.

I urge people to take the time to read the entire article at the link carefully and thoroughly.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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