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In reply to the discussion: KKK crucial to building the South’s enduring Republican majority, study finds [View all]VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)14. They hate Hillary Clinton...but when you press them why....they cannot come up with a single thing..
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KKK crucial to building the South’s enduring Republican majority, study finds [View all]
DonViejo
Dec 2014
OP
That's known. The OP is about post-civil-rights era, when the racists switched parties.
arcane1
Dec 2014
#5
You should read more about history, you would find out why the parties are reversed today.
Rex
Dec 2014
#11
The KKK was found by conservatives... funny you leave that out in a useless counter point...
uponit7771
Dec 2014
#27
And we let the terrorists continue to win, when Democrats are steered rightward...
villager
Dec 2014
#2
I KNOW....there are lots of places in the south where a Liberal is considered a social pariah....
VanillaRhapsody
Dec 2014
#3
EXACTLY....they are dangerously close to fascists...they demand conformity...
VanillaRhapsody
Dec 2014
#10
They hate Hillary Clinton...but when you press them why....they cannot come up with a single thing..
VanillaRhapsody
Dec 2014
#14
I have heard him called that word a number of times...including by my father..
VanillaRhapsody
Dec 2014
#20
and they think they "just have a difference of opinion" than you...as IF there are two sides to
VanillaRhapsody
Dec 2014
#22
Thanks....thats the bane of the Democratic Party existance... Marketing...they don't hire marketers.
VanillaRhapsody
Dec 2014
#24
I wonder if they even remember who lifted them out of the Great Depression? TVA? Government
jwirr
Dec 2014
#30
And being educated in private schools that refuse to teach any of the truth. Do they even know that
jwirr
Dec 2014
#38
And it wouldn't have anything to do with a condescending attitude toward country folk? nt
One_Life_To_Give
Dec 2014
#46
Been here for 44 years without seeing anything KKK related except in movies and here on DU.
ileus
Dec 2014
#40
I currently live in the deep South. I spent the first half of my life in the North (Toledo & MI).
Dawgs
Dec 2014
#59
I am from the south, I have seen KKK activity, I lived in Livingston Parish where David Duke had a
Thinkingabout
Dec 2014
#49