Liberal or progressive?

[zipplewrath]

94. But you avoid the question

You're making the argument that holding the house is worth undermining democratic goals and values. That somehow democrats and progressives are wrong for asking blue dogs to support the party. The Dixiecrats were also being told by their constituents to vote certain ways. Ways that had them voting to support segregation. The senate most often used the filibuster, by dixiecrats, to block anti-lynching laws at the federal level.

You suggest it would been better to have kept the dixiecrats, including Helms and Thurmond in the democratic party, than to have forced the integration of the democratic party. Mind you, we did FORCE the southern states to integrate the party, and lost many a democratic senator and representative because of it. But you would classify this as some sort of "purity test" on the part of progressives.