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NCjack

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24. If it is important that DEMs started the KKK (and they did), then today's KKKers

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 11:57 AM

Aug 2017

would join the DEM party, vote for DEM candidates and give money to the DEM party. I don't know of any KKKer who votes DEM, etc.

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"Democrats started the KKK" [View all] SHRED Aug 2017 OP

They are correct. guillaumeb Aug 2017 #1

Southern Democrats became Republicans almost overnight. trof Aug 2017 #31

The Republican Party started the "War of Northern Aggression". DetlefK Aug 2017 #2

The OP just refuted their bullshit. A simpler answer is that most of those FORMER democrats became still_one Aug 2017 #3

Good and concise SHRED Aug 2017 #4

I edited it to "most" from "all", because there were a few Democrats who didn't change parties still_one Aug 2017 #8

this ffr Aug 2017 #7

+1 dalton99a Aug 2017 #10

Conservative Political Ideology started the KKK A HERETIC I AM Aug 2017 #5

This is the most astute summation of its origins, TY! arthritisR_US Aug 2017 #28

Great point! Unrepentant Fenian Aug 2017 #35

I'd carry it to its conclusion. ffr Aug 2017 #6

Precisely gratuitous Aug 2017 #12

And the parties pretty much flipped during FDR's administration The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2017 #9

From about 1820 until FDR, the Dems were on the wrong side of history scheming daemons Aug 2017 #11

Then in the 60s, the segregationists went where?......... nt Guy Whitey Corngood Aug 2017 #13

And the Republicans took over after the Democrats abandoned it. haele Aug 2017 #14

My hubby got confronted with that line from a right winger yesterday kimbutgar Aug 2017 #15

That's like saying scientists once thought the sun revolved around the earth, procon Aug 2017 #16

That's actually a little misleading moose65 Aug 2017 #25

Then why isn't every KKK member and Nazi a democrat? Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #17

The Democratic Party was in fact the party of slavery BainsBane Aug 2017 #18

And the GOP ran them out of it and took it over. nt Ilsa Aug 2017 #19

I Remind Them That It Is a Southern Thing Leith Aug 2017 #20

To them Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2017 #21

It's true, but the parties kind of flipped. Oneironaut Aug 2017 #22

The Democrats got out of the KKK business, and the Republicans... JHB Aug 2017 #23

If it is important that DEMs started the KKK (and they did), then today's KKKers NCjack Aug 2017 #24

Been under new management since 1964 rurallib Aug 2017 #26

So we will happily finish them! HopeAgain Aug 2017 #27

Simple rebuttal: "Were they liberals or conservatives?" bluepen Aug 2017 #29

Oh they'll quickly say "liberals" Montauk6 Aug 2017 #34

Everyone with half a brain knows the republicans recruited and welcomed the racists Dems Elwood P Dowd Aug 2017 #30

Show them this documentary: MountCleaners Aug 2017 #32

And Republicans keep it alive. ck4829 Aug 2017 #33

Yeah, but Democrats evolved while the GOP devolved. sinkingfeeling Aug 2017 #36