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Post by the Scribe on Dec 6, 2022 8:57:24 GMT
How things got this bad
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22274429/republicans-anti-democracy-13-charts
6) The Republican turn against democracy begins with race:format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22325781/F2.large__1_.jpg) Support for authoritarian ideas in America is closely tied to the country’s long-running racial conflicts. This chart, from a September 2020 paper by Vanderbilt professor Larry Bartels, shows a statistical analysis of a survey of Republican voters, analyzing the link between respondents’ score on a measure of “ethnic antagonism” and their support for four anti-democratic statements (e.g., “the traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it”). The graphic shows a clear finding: The higher a voter scores on the ethnic antagonism scale, the more likely they are to support anti-democratic ideas. This held true even when Bartels used regression analyses to compare racial attitudes to other predictors, like support for Trump. “The strongest predictor by far of these antidemocratic attitudes is ethnic antagonism,” he writes. For students of American history, this shouldn’t be a surprise. The 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act cemented Democrats as the party of racial equality, causing racially resentful Democrats in the South and elsewhere to defect to the Republican Party. This sorting process, which took place over the next few decades, is the key reason America is so polarized. It also explains why Republicans are increasingly willing to endorse anti-democratic political tactics and ideas. In the past, restrictions on the franchise served to protect white political power in a changing country; today, as demographic change threatens to further undermine the central place of white Americans, many are becoming comfortable with an updated version of the Jim Crow South’s authoritarian tradition. |
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 8, 2022 2:57:17 GMT
Civil Rights ISN'T a political party thing, it isn't Republican or Democratic. It IS CONSERVATIVE VS LIBERAL and has more to do historically with CONFEDERATE "CONSERVATIVE" SOUTH VS UNION "LIBERAL" NORTH.
You don't need to know too much history to understand that the South from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 tended to be opposed to minority rights.
90% of members of Congress from states (or territories) that were part of the Union voted in favor of the act, while less than 10% of members of Congress from the old Confederate states voted for it. Democrats in the North and the South were more likely to vote for the bill than Republicans in the North and South respectively. It just so happened southerners made up a larger percentage of the Democratic than Republican caucus, which created the initial impression that Republicans were more in favor of the act.
Nearly 100% of Union state Democrats supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act compared to 85% of Republicans. None of the southern Republicans voted for the bill, while a small percentage of southern Democrats did. The same pattern holds true when looking at ideology instead of party affiliation.
The folks over at voteview.com/ , who created DW-nominate scores to measure the ideology of congressmen and senators, found that THE MORE LIBERAL A CONGRESSMAN OR SENATOR WAS THE MORE LIKELY HE WOULD VOTE FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, once one controlled for a factor closely linked to geography.
Minorities have a pretty good idea of what they are doing when joining the Democratic party. They recognize that the Democratic party of today looks and sounds a lot more like the Democratic party of the North that with near unity passed the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 than the southern Democrats of the era who blocked it, and today would, like Strom Thurmond, likely be Republicans."
After 1964 all the racist conservatives in the Democratic Party went Republican where they remain today. It is just a natural order of things that Conservatives are racist no matter what their party affiliation.
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Nice try with your propaganda but you are speaking of a time when Liberals populated both parties and it was the Liberals, NOT the conservatives who were passing civil right legislation.
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