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Lidane7/23/2014 8:04:54 am PDT

Democrats are teh real racists!

National Review Writer Blasts Dem Support Of Jim Crow, Ignores Magazine’s Own Support

Fund went on to invoke arguments familiar to anyone who’s heard a conservative try to explain why Democrats are the real racists, reminding readers that Woodrow Wilson had a horrible record on race relations, that a larger percentage of congressional Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and that the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) was once a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

He only blithely alluded to Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy,” which, coupled with Lyndon B. Johnson’s support of civil rights legislation, helped cement a half-century of voting patterns in the old Confederate states: black voters flocked to the Democratic Party while white voters shifted to the GOP in droves.