re: #99 OhNoZombies!

I said this the other day:

1964 and 1965 led directly to the Southern Strategy.
Ronald Reagan praised states rights and opened the door to evangelicals.
Jesse Helms warned his constituents of the “Black Hands” coming to take “stuff” away from hard working Americans. Etc., etc., etc.

This stuff has been a long time in the making, and many of us were keenly aware of the GOP pattern of behavior long before Fox and Rush.

The difference now, is the animus which has been festering just below the surface, has been given a voice by RW media and the internet, so everyone can see it.

And I want to add, that I firmly believe that all of the vitriol against public education can be linked directly back to desegregation.

Racism is in their bones.

True, to some extent, but I will submit that until relatively recently, the racism was pushed beneath the surface to a great extent - they didn’t embrace it to anywhere near the level that they do today.

As an example, the Republican Party at least had the intelligence in 1991 to publicly oppose David Duke’s run for Louisiana Governor on their party’s ticket during the runoff election that he qualified for.

I honestly can’t say that today’s Republican Party would distance themselves from an unapologetic racist, like they did back then.