The Democrats’ own website, to this day, attempts to take fraudulently credit for the civil rights movement and legislation, and when called on it, the recitation is the same: “we’ve grown” and “don’t forget about the Dixiecrats”.

Defensive liberals claim the Dixiecrats, as a whole, defected from the Democrat Party when President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (no thanks to Democrats), and became Republicans which they claimed were more accepting of segregationist policies.

Well, I decided to get some opinions on the matter from some historians.

I contacted Professor Larry Schweikart of the University of Dayton for advice. Larry and I worked on a documentary based on a chapter on Ronald Reagan from his best-selling book, A Patriot’s History of the United States.

The idea that “the Dixiecrats joined the Republicans” is not quite true, as you note. But because of Strom Thurmond it is accepted as a fact. What happened is that the **next** generation (post 1965) of white southern politicians — Newt, Trent Lott, Ashcroft, Cochran, Alexander, etc — joined the GOP.

So it was really a passing of the torch as the old segregationists retired and were replaced by new young GOP guys. One particularly galling aspect to generalizations about “segregationists became GOP” is that the new GOP South was INTEGRATED for crying out loud, they accepted the Civil Rights revolution. Meanwhile, Jimmy Carter led a group of what would become “New” Democrats like Clinton and Al Gore.

Larry also suggested I contact Mike Allen, Professor of History at the University of Washington, Tacoma (who also appeared in the Reagan documentary) for input.

There weren’t many Republicans in the South prior to 1964, but that doesn’t mean the birth of the southern GOP was tied to “white racism.” That said, I am sure there were and are white racist southern GOP. No one would deny that. But it was the southern Democrats who were the party of slavery and, later, segregation. It was George Wallace, not John Tower, who stood in the southern schoolhouse door to block desegregation! The vast majority of Congressional GOP voted FOR the Civil Rights of 1964-65. The vast majority of those opposed to those acts were southern Democrats. Southern Democrats led to infamous filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The confusion arises from GOP Barry Goldwater’s vote against the ’64 act. He had voted in favor or all earlier bills and had led the integration of the Arizona Air National Guard, but he didn’t like the “private property” aspects of the ’64 law. In other words, Goldwater believed people’s private businesses and private clubs were subject only to market forces, not government mandates (“We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.”) His vote against the Civil Rights Act was because of that one provision was, to my mind, a principled mistake.

This stance is what won Goldwater the South in 1964, and no doubt many racists voted for Goldwater in the mistaken belief that he opposed Negro Civil Rights. But Goldwater was not a racist; he was a libertarian who favored both civil rights and property rights.

Switch to 1968.

Richard Nixon was also a proponent of Civil Rights; it was a CA colleague who urged Ike to appoint Warren to the Supreme Court; he was a supporter of Brown v. Board, and favored sending troops to integrate Little Rock High). Nixon saw he could develop a “Southern strategy” based on Goldwater’s inroads. He did, but Independent Democrat George Wallace carried most of the deep south in 68. By 1972, however, Wallace was shot and paralyzed, and Nixon began to tilt the south to the GOP. The old guard Democrats began to fade away while a new generation of Southern politicians became Republicans. True, Strom Thurmond switched to GOP, but most of the old timers (Fulbright, Gore, Wallace, Byrd etc etc) retired as Dems.

Why did a new generation white Southerners join the GOP? Not because they thought Republicans were racists who would return the South to segregation, but because the GOP was a “local government, small government” party in the old Jeffersonian tradition. Southerners wanted less government and the GOP was their natural home.

Jimmy Carter, a Civil Rights Democrat, briefly returned some states to the Democrat fold, but in 1980, Goldwater’s heir, Ronald Reagan, sealed this deal for the GOP. The new “Solid South” was solid GOP.

BUT, and we must stress this: the new southern Republicans were *integrationist* Republicans who accepted the Civil Rights revolution and full integration while retaining their love of Jeffersonian limited government principles.

And what did Malcolm X say about the “Dixiecrats”…?

I’m sure the more learned Democrats will have issues with these explanations.

Oh well.

I actually found myself calling into C-SPAN when during their morning roundtable Monday they asked if he should attend. I found myself agreeing with most blacks, but for a more tactical reason.

I would have liked him to go there. Liberal hate for hate’s sake is something I think America always needs to see. Although the pundits thought Karl Rove wanted to keep scenes of Bush being booed off the nation’s evening news, the sight of disrespectful, unrestrained jubilant black people laughing at and insulting the President of the United States would have been educational at the least; alarming at best.

“The problem is they don’t have much of an alternative and so what happens, generally, is they choose the lesser of two evils, which is the Democratic Party. The Republican Party can stress hard work and conservative values but it hasn’t been able to fight the perception that it is run by white, Southern racists.”
— David Bositis, senior political analyst with the Joint Center for Political Studies in Washington, D.C.

While some may consider that a veiled reference to the beverage volume of choice by some in our populace, I am referring to what should have been a major event that’s been suspiciously ignored by ALL in the major media: the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights act. I’m not convinced they are saving their hoopla for the 50th. To do a comprehensive analysis of the happenings leading up to that historic signing would reveal a long running lie, yes lie, repeated on almost a daily basis: that Democrats are the party of civil rights.

I don’t know what liberal unionized-Democrat teachers are pushing on our kids nowadays, but how many blacks kids know that the Republican Party was founded upon anti-slavery principles in 1854, that Republican President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and freed all slaves in the states that broke away from the Union, and in 1870 the first black senator and congressmen appointed were Republicans. In fact until 1930, all blacks on Capitol Hill were exclusively Republican.

Anyway, Democrats will be the first to say that Republicans recruited Southern Dixiecrats to capture that region’s vote. Democrats define Dixiecrats as racist Democrats. Their aim is to say that racists infiltrated the Republican Party.

Let’s interject some logic here: if southern racist Democrats became Republicans, how could (and would) they vote FOR the Civil Rights Act? It’s a well documentable and easily proved fact that the majority of Republicans voted for the Act, thus the majority of Democrats voted against it. Since Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Act, Democrats fraudulently received and are now drowning in their self-congratulations.

Maybe the remaining Dixiecrats who remained with the Democrat Party had no desire to hang with nigger-lovin’ Republicans, and gladly stayed where they felt comfortable. Maybe the incarnation of these Dixiecrats are those very Democrats who use blacks to win elections then purposefully neglect the very problems they enumerate in the inner city, just to keep those issues alive every two and four years.

As I’ve always pointed out, Republicans have near zero influence in the black community. I see U.S. Senators and Congresspersons guiding blacks, black city councilors, school superintendents, principals, teachers, police chiefs, local “leaders”, and they are almost ALL Democrats. It’s amazing how stupid they think blacks are and how stupid blacks let themselves be. Democrats control almost every aspect of life within the community. How are the problems Bush’s fault?

A Democrat designed the 2000 butterfly ballot in Florida and it’s a Republican’s fault that blacks couldn’t read it?

If all the people who have any say in your life are Democrats, and the same issues that plagued the community decades ago exist today, and are worse, only a blithering idiot would go-along with everyone else and blame the only people who have no influence over you.

That is, if you also wish to avoid being called the ultimate, yet literature-content incorrect slur of “Uncle Tom.” I guess it’s better to walk around acting the fool instead of being called one.

“There is a lot of dissatisfaction among blacks with the Democratic Party.”
— Ron Walters, political scientist with the University of Maryland

I contend racist Democrats remained with the Democrat Party, racists like J. William Fulbright (Bill Clinton’s “mentor”), Robert (KKK) Byrd, and Senator Albert Gore, Sr. who like those of their ilk voted against the Act.

But Gore’s son and later former vice president now feels quite comfortable speaking in front of who he obviously considers “stupid blacks” to call his father a “champion of civil rights” as he did during the 2000 election.

Since either complicit or ignorant “journalists are perpetuating the lie” it’s no wonder that the usual campaign tactic is being utilized by the hustlers to the duped….

Who Be Dissin’ Who?
I know it’s hard to go somewhere you know you’ll receive a butt whupping. I understand why the president avoided the convention. Bush knew he’d be getting the same merciless treatment an aspiring, but not yet honed, performer would receive on the stage of the Apollo Theater. Black folk would be booing, laughing hysterically, and shouting unkind retorts to Bush’s every line.

NAACP “chairman” Julian Bond is already being paid. To instigate the insulting of the leader of the party in power means nothing to him. Should blacks migrate from the Democrat Party, he loses power and relevance, so he plays the same card that most blacks love to believe: that all white people are racists, except the ones they know, all white Republicans are rich racists, and minority Republicans are sellouts.

“When the ultraconservative right-wing attacker has run out of attack strategy, he goes and gets someone that looks like you and me to continue the attack. They’ve financed a conservative coalition of make-believe black organizations, all of them hollow shells with more names on the letterhead than there are people in their membership.”
— Kweisi Mfume, president of the NAACP

Now while I’m at it, if I may interject a little more logic in my analysis: the prevailing wisdom is that if 95% of blacks are Democrats, then the remaining five percent are “misguided” as the liberal panelist essentially called me and other black Republicans during the televised discussion last February at Stanford Law.

Not that I’d ever elevate myself to that stature, but there were a minority of people who rejected the notion that the world was the center of the universe, and was flat. I’m sure 95% of doctors at one time believed that in order to relieve disease, cutting a deep gash in a patient and draining out the “bad” blood was the cure. Sure, when they died it was probably assumed they did because they were too far-gone, but that treatment continued on as the norm for many years.

I’d be willing to bet 95% of the people who spent months in wagon trains commuting from the northeast to California would be in sheer disbelief that one day that same trip could be done in six hours by air.

So just because five percent of us think the NAACP is a sham organization run by hustlers who are enriching themselves on the backs of poor blacks they need to stay down, we need to be discredited. Should the day come that blacks realize that their misery is not only self-imposed, but also a tactical decision, I wouldn’t sell life insurance to Bond, or whoever replaces him.

“They preach racial neutrality and practice racial division. They’ve tried to patch the leaky economy and every other domestic problem with duct tape and plastic sheets. They write a new constitution of Iraq and they ignore the Constitution here at home.”
— NAACP chairman Julian Bond

With the exception of the last statement, Bond sounds like he’s talking about the same Democrats who’ve been social-experimenting with blacks with everything from midnight-basketball to housing projects to denying them school vouchers for years.

They play on the “social injustice” theme by bringing up the tired discrepancy between the prison time done by blacks for dealing crack cocaine, and the lack of time done by whites that deal powder. The conveniently leave out one important aspect of the scenario: violence. I don’t recall hearing stories of little white kids who have to sleep in bathtubs to avoid the stray bullets that punctuates their sleepy suburbs. If higher sentences reduce the murder of innocents caught in gang crossfire, so be it.

It would seem that the only people that are keeping blacks “down” are Democrats and the blacks that are enamored by their talk. Blacks can stay uneducated as long as Democrats lay awash in teacher’s union money. Democrats can spend all their time telling blacks how racist everyone else is, and basically how futile life will continue to be.

What exactly is the Democrat/NAACP message to blacks? Simply that there are racist Republican bogeymen around every corner that seek to keep you down, so why try and succeed? Play basketball, rap, make babies, collect welfare, wait for reparations, and stay under-educated.

“Why did Bush knock down the Towers?”
— Lyric by Jadakiss’ second album “Kiss of Death,” that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last week

The NAACP and their image awards, obviously sanctioned by people like Bond, tout the importance of hip hop and rap “music” and it’s message while ignoring the violence, degradation of women, and celebrated illiteracy through the use of juvenile, sexually explicit, nursery rhyme-sounding filth. The “music” is simple and is financed, thus reaped, by liberals in the entertainment business. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if Bond and the upper echelon of the NAACP receive some kind of kickback from the “award” ceremony.

Think about this: Bill Clinton in his first two years of the presidency had a Democrat senate and congress to work with. Ask him, after ALL the promises, ALL the accusations of racism, ALL the feeling of your pain, why he didn’t do shit?

Because he didn’t have to, and neither do Democrats.

Who’s laughing now…?