Question about conservatives, and racism?

[john]

I'm trying to understand why racism gets associated with a persons spending, social views, or the south? It is 2014. Houston & Austin TX are very socially liberal cities for example.

My family are all Hardcore Democrats. Union construction works, and cops. We are also from a major northern city. You would not even believe the racist jokes, and views. In fact I know very few whites from my liberal city, that aren't racist based on experiences in life, in the city.

So the question is why do you associate politics, and race?

[Babs1]

The left has made race baiting a major sport. Surely you know that.

[STEEL]

I have to give the left a lot of credit. They have done an AMAZING job over the last five years of targeting and accusing ANYBODY who doesn't support the current administration of being racist.

[Rob Riggle]

All cities are predominately liberal, as you get into suburban and rural areas, you will find that conservatism starts to take over. You never hear of murder, rape, or robbery in suburban/rural places. It all happens in the cities, and welfare and food-stamps are highest there as well.

[El Tecolote]

I'm starting to think the only reason a bunch of Democrats got together and elected a black guy was so they could call conservatives racists when they formed logical arguments against the guy's bullshit policies.

[Taylor]

Easy.. If a liberal feels they are losing the debate... be ready. The concept of 'racism' has been raped by the left as a political tool.
It's not about what is said, but rather who says it

[wtinc]

Simply you have a Racist media in this country that wants to continue that and they project that by turning it on the south in order to hide there own racism

[Snake Bait]

Democrats use race to demonize their opponents. Its like a mean schoolgirl spreading rumors and lies about another girl to sink her.

The huge irony is that it is the Democrats that were burning crosses, not letting blacks ride in the front of the bus, and keeping blacks out of white schools and colleges, not the Republicans.

[shawn]

Liberalism is based on race, gender, class and sexual orientation. The liberal left uses these categories like a chess game with help from the liberal media. People like Jesse Jackson, Van Jones, Al Sharpton etc. are all pawns in the chess game in order to gain votes based on lies and manipulation of the facts.

In other words liberalism uses race, gender, class and sexual orientation on the naive and ignorant Democrat voters in order to maintain its power.

Were you aware that 98 percent of all registered black voters voted for Obama - twice? Do you think it was for Obama's half blackness, half whiteness or his anti-American leftist ideology?

I'll let you be the judge.

[crookedbomb974]

George Wallace and Orval Faubus never joined the Republican Party, even though they both lived into the 1990's.

The last KKK member in Congress was a life long Democrat who lived until 2010.

Out of the 26 members of the Dixiecrat Party, 23 of them were never Republicans.

Strom Thurmond was an isolated case of a Dixiecrat joining the Republican Party. He did not reflect the majority of Dixiecrats.

Democrats started the KKK and Jim Crow laws.

The KKK has less than 10,000 members today. Even if every KKK member is a registered Republican, it would be less than 0.02% of all Republicans. It does not in any way reflect the views of the Republican Party in general.

Conservative Democrats of 50 years ago have nothing to do with conservative Republicans of today. It is not valid to claim guilt by association just by labelling southern Democrats as conservative and then pretending that makes Republicans into racist bigots.

The southern states switched to Republican majorities because the growing population of urban areas in the north caused the northern Kennedy Democrats to gain power in the Democratic Party, so it no longer represented the views of southern Democrats. Before 1948, most Democrat politicians were members of the KKK, and segregation was an official policy of the Democratic Party. In 1948, the Democratic Party ceased to support segregation, and many southern Democrat were voting Democrat only because of their support of segregation. After 1948, southern racists no longer had a reason to vote Democrat.

The Republican Party has never supported segregation or any other overtly racist policies against blacks. Republicans originated most civil rights legislation before 1964, and Democrats fillibustered and defeated it. In 1957, President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Arkansas to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus to allow black students to enter the public schools in Little Rock.