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bluestate10

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40. That MLK was a republican doesn't surprise me.

Fri Oct 26, 2012, 04:36 PM

Oct 2012

The majority of Black people voted for Richard Nixon in 1960. Black people voted nearly 100% republican up until FDR. Power politicians of King's younger days were racist democrats, so it makes sense that any thinking person that hated what the south was then would register as a republican, because they were going nowhere as a democrat then.

The republican party of today is what the southern democratic party of King's youth was, a racist party out of step with reality.

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"Martin Luther King Jr was a Republican" [View all] txdemsftw Oct 2012 OP

He was... S_E_Fudd Oct 2012 #1

If MLK was alive today..... Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2012 #2

The Republican Party of the 1960s is not the Republican Party of today cherish44 Oct 2012 #3

I agree txdemsftw Oct 2012 #5

Yep! Need to be sure that message comes thru loud and clear to the people patricia92243 Oct 2012 #8

Barry Goldwater, anyone? The 1968 Conventions? Remove the rose-colored glasses. WinkyDink Oct 2012 #14

A correction on your logic. bluestate10 Oct 2012 #47

Abraham Lincoln was a republican lpbk2713 Oct 2012 #4

it is totally irrelevant to 2012. things were different back then graham4anything Oct 2012 #6

In recent decades the liberal party was not partcularly liberal. It helped elect D'Amato. libinnyandia Oct 2012 #19

he's interesting-do you know he stood next to Kristen G. when she was sworn in? graham4anything Oct 2012 #24

No. He actually wasn't too bad comared to most of the present GOP senators. libinnyandia Oct 2012 #35

this is why they want the shcools to stop teaching about the Civil Rights Movement Enrique Oct 2012 #7

We should turn this into a teachable moment, why the South went from Dem to Repug. reformist2 Oct 2012 #9

If so, it was before the racist Dixiecrats joined the GOP deutsey Oct 2012 #10

We didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left us. nt MrScorpio Oct 2012 #11

African-Americans in the Jim Crow South were ALL Republicans in the '50's. Zen Democrat Oct 2012 #12

This ^ sadbear Oct 2012 #18

The republican sheep have no sense of history justiceischeap Oct 2012 #13

It PROBABLY has to do with the economy, Civil Rights, and equality. WinkyDink Oct 2012 #16

Which ties into economy, civil rights & equality. nt justiceischeap Oct 2012 #20

Big whoop. So were my parents and grandparents, but the modern GOP LeftinOH Oct 2012 #15

Hmm.. txdemsftw Oct 2012 #17

At that time EC Oct 2012 #21

He wouldn't have been killed by a hired gunman Risen Demon Oct 2012 #22

Well I guess Republicans are Communists then because they keep telling me MLK was a commie. denverbill Oct 2012 #23

LOL AspenRose Oct 2012 #27

MLK was against the Vietnam War. AspenRose Oct 2012 #25

sigh hiphopnation Oct 2012 #26

The backlash you mentioned is good indication of how intelligent the readers of these billboards are We People Oct 2012 #28

You are correct Risen Demon Oct 2012 #32

If republicans were straight and honest, they would say today, fuck the racists in their party, bluestate10 Oct 2012 #46

Jack Kennedy called Mrs. King. (Richard Nixon did not.) Octafish Oct 2012 #29

And politifact sez--False Maeve Oct 2012 #30

He was, then the Dems went to the Republican Party nadinbrzezinski Oct 2012 #31

Shame on them for trying to con people like this, CheapShotArtist Oct 2012 #33

Yeah, so was Lincoln. Iggo Oct 2012 #34

If Martin Luther King belonged to the party of Jesse Helms . . . Jack Rabbit Oct 2012 #36

Jesse Helms and Strom Thurman were democrats at one time. bluestate10 Oct 2012 #42

Reagan was a Democrat. GeorgeGist Oct 2012 #37

I think that is true madokie Oct 2012 #38

They tried this same crap last election cycle standingtall Oct 2012 #39

That MLK was a republican doesn't surprise me. bluestate10 Oct 2012 #40

Strom THurmond, Jesse Helms etc use to be Democrats JI7 Oct 2012 #41

LaRouche claims that Edgar Allen Poe and Harriet Tubman were CIA spies for the US Government. vaberella Oct 2012 #43

Ever notice how Republican marketing always assumes the voter is a complete moron? Marr Oct 2012 #44

do not forget they live in a bubble,when you wear ruby eyeglasses everything is red n\t -LOKI -BAD FOR YA Oct 2012 #49

Considering what the Democratic Party in the south was at the time....it's no surprise. Tierra_y_Libertad Oct 2012 #45

The suffragettes were Republican loyalsister Oct 2012 #48