re: #108 RadicalModerate

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.

You’re trying to paint a moving boxcar. The GOP and Dems have been realigning for a hundred years. In the decades you cite, the shift was not as complete as now. If you look at the RW, disregarding their local and temporal letterhead, racism is a core part of their package.